101. Summer one o one

Taken: 28.6.2014
In Hong Kong, summer isn't summer unless you've gone on a junk boat trip. My summer is now complete. Another one next week for added bonus!

100. "Who you callin' stupid?"

Taken: 27.6.2014
At home

99. Rescued

Taken: 7.6.2014
On Bowen Road, Hong Kong

He "walks like a duck, sits like a seal, snorts like a pig, pees like a girl". This little trans-species trans-gender oddball is available for adoption! 

98. A fire in the sky

Taken: 1.6.2014
In Hong Kong
#nofilter

97. Idiots hiking

Taken: 31.5.2014
On Dragon's Back, Shek O

Someone thought it would be a good idea to go hiking on one of the hottest days of the year, at 2pm the hottest time of the day, and we obliged. The view was quite spectacular, I must say, but we were  also spectacularly idiotic to have done such a thing.

96. Good genes

Taken: 11.5.2014

In Cheshire, UK

This Grandpa just turned 90. He still drives (his new car which he bought not very long ago), he still drinks his fair share of alcohol (responsibly), and he still does the gardening. 

95. Hello Deer

Resuming after a one-year hiatus...

Taken: 10.5.2014
In Cheshire, UK.
Visiting Grandpa for his 90th birthday. We always come to Tatton Park for walks while we're here. Today was just Dad and I. And these deer. And a fresh set of lungs.

Wedding again!

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94. Winter Runs

Taken: 23.1.2013
In: Ultental, Bolzano, Italy.

Just above the quiet valley of Ulten in Northern Italy, this impressive mountain range stretches across South Tyrol near the border of Austria, offering incredibly breathtaking views, great skiing and some of the nicest people in the continent.

93. Autumn rides

Taken: 4.11.2012

At Ocean Park, Hong Kong.

Ocean Park has changed a lot since I stopped being a regular there - i.e. since I was in high school. It has changed both for better and for worse. On one hand it is trying really hard to stay competitive and stay original, with Disneyland and it's x-year extension plan chomping up the theme-park market share in this part of the world. OP has introduced a few new rides, a few new animal exhibits including penguins and more pandas, relocated and revamped and expanded the aquarium, and built a fake "old Hong Kong street" that sold "old Hong Kong street food" and had games where you can win a soft stuffed egg tart toy. 

On the other hand, just like Disney, as soon as you enter the park you are bombarded with souvenir shops, a huge fountain and "epic adventure music". The dolphin show, which used to also feature a killer whale, also bombards you with deafening music throughout the show, and near-propaganda-type audio story of how animals and humans used to live together harmoniously until humans grew more brains and grew hungry and turn planet earth into a free-for-all dumpster. I guess things got a bit boring ever since the killer whale died back in 1997.

But nothing is worse than, although understandable, the number of tour groups from mainland China that the park admits every weekend. Tour bus after tour bus flood into the park's bus carpark, and led by tour guides, they mosey around the park, cut in queues, clip their toenails, flash their camera flashes at pandas and penguins, and leave without riding on any of the rides. But hey, what can you say, can't blame OP for taking advantage of welcoming the rich and eager-to-travel mainland bros to spend a few and save the park from sinking under Disney's shadow, right?

92. Standing on the back of a dragon

Taken: 29.10.2012
Hiking on Dragon's Back, overlooking Shek O beach, with the mighty wind in your hair and corn chips in hand #PerfectSunday

91. Chicken soup for the Seoul

Taken: 22.10.2012

Nothing feels better than Ginseng chicken soup for late lunch on a cold wet autumn day on the penultimate day of an amazing trip with ridiculous friends to Seoul, Korea.

90. Jump seat to Seoul

Taken: 20.10.2012, Hong Kong International Airport.
Standing by: It's always a nervous wait, but once you get your boarding pass it feels all the more rewarding.  On my way to Seoul, Korea for the first time!

89. Back in the day

Taken: 14.10.2012
Old Peak Road, the edge of what was once the city of Victoria.

88. Respiratory Failure

Taken: 13.10.2012
At Victoria Peak, HK

Today's air pollution index is...get me a lung transplant.

87. Fine Art Asia 2012

Taken: 3.10.2012
At the private vernissage of Fine Art Asia 2012, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.

Prizes for whoever can tell me who the artist is, because I forgot.

86. Dragons at rest

Taken: 1.10.2012
At Stanley Beach

With the mid-autumn festival marking the official end of summer (I just re-read that and yes doesn't make sense) in Hong Kong, these dragon boats will be chilling out here for the a while before dragon boat racing season begins again next summer.

Wedding shoot #2

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85. Sound of Tuesday night

Taken: 18.9.2012
At The Wanch, Wanchai

I met this Canadian girl "J" (whose boyfriend is Indian - on the right) at my Swedish-Chinese friend's wedding in Norway when my friend married a Norwegian that she met in Belgium while on exchange during our time at university in England. I don't know how many more countries I can fit into one sentence. That was probably my record high. Anyway, we kept in touch, she came to HK for a 5-month long holiday / summer break, I hooked her up with an internship, and she invited me to her gig. Life's not bad.

84. Compass

Taken: 16.9.2012
At Tom Read's debut album "Compass" launch gig.

A life devoted to worship is a life worth living.