Long time again...

Been working like crazy again. Have spent the last few weeks in HK doing a lot of R&D with some new processing techniques and camera systems for work and will be heading out for a few months very soon.

Was able to enjoy a walk down to the waterfront last night though! In HK I live in a village near Tai Po, a "town" of about 320,000 people. Every night there are some people who fly these massive kites up to 500m above the ground and its really cool to see the different kinds of kites they have.

This shot was taken from the top of the 1997 handover monument along the waterfront park. The body of water is Tolo Harbor and the town way off in the distance is Ma On Shan.

Fire Dragon Dance

Back in HK, at least for a few weeks. Just spent a month in Singapore for work and am really happy to be back home now :-p So much more culture, so much more life, so much more of everything in HK when compared to Singapore.

Anyways, here are some pictures from last night. It is the Fire Dragon Dance in Tai Hang, Hong Kong. This year was the 131st year in a row that it has been performed. For some of the legends and history behind it, just check on Google!

Time-Lapse HK

Time-lapse of the infamous HK skyline for an hour before and after sunset...

Update Time

To make a long story short, the cycling trip ended in Penang, Malaysia after 1200km of riding through one of the most beautiful countries of Asia.

I got a job with MapJack, a company that specializes in panoramic imaging, similar to Google's "street view" but vastly more advanced. So, from now on I'm working for them! I'm still based in Hong Kong and most of the work will be around greater Asia area.

More to come later, hopefully sooner rather than later!

Cheers!

Malaysia!

Cycling trip panorama! Its been a long time since the last update on here it seems, but, check the link in my previous post to read up and see some more pictures from the trip! There are several updates on the cycling blog now!

This was taken about 10km west of Jeli, Malaysia. It is honestly one of the most beautiful scenes I've had the privilege to view with my own eyes. Early morning just after sunrise deep in the jungle of the peninsula, birds chirping and cawing with vigor and the sweet smell of lush vegetation surrounding me. This place wasn't mentioned in any of the guidebooks or travel websites anywhere that I could find. I checked quite a lot of them to know more about this formation after reaching the next city and found nothing but a vast emptiness with junky links to resorts 200km away from this location. Haha! Anyways, it is along Route 4 that goes from one coast to the other.

Whaaaaa??????

Well, to make things simple and easy, click this link to see what I've been up to for the last week!


http://www.velocityracers.com/j/cycling-blog/se-asia

I'm in Kuala Rompin, Malaysia right now. Heading up to either Pekan or Kuantan tomorrow depending on the amount of bloody hills on the route! Heh. Anyways, below is a picture of something that I found crawling on my bicycle in the hotel room earlier tonight... it made me say WHAAA???? out loud! Hehe...

Poor picture, but I wanted it out of the room as quickly as possible! Was about 3 inches long from those gnarly chompers to the back

Almost There

Leaving tomorrow for a 3-month cycling trip from Singapore to Macau! Been crazy busy for the last couple of weeks with last-minute photoshoots and getting everything prepared for the trip.

Here are a couple of unedited shots from one of the shoots I did yesterday... and yes, it tasted as good as it looks =)

All of the food shots were done outside here in Hong Kong. A piece of white posterboard and a couple of knives to hold the bottom edges down are all you need!

Summer...

Well, suppose its time to lay out my summer on here! I'll be flying down to Singapore in a few weeks with my bicycle. From there I'll re-assemble it (have to disassemble it for the flight down) and will be cycling 5000km from Singapore to Macau! Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and China in all!

Right now I'm still figuring out routes and whatnot, but honestly most of it will be planned on the fly by the seat of my pants!

This is the bike I'll be doing the tour on. Still some modifications to finish like removing the dual-drive and adding a Campy triple in front, replacing the chain and adding a different seat (mesh, much more tolerable in the summer heat of Southeast Asia!) and oh so much more.

Anyways, enough of this for now. More to come later!

Dusty Road

Dusty road in Central Asia

Karakol Lake (Black Lake)

Panorama of Karakol Lake in Xinjiang Province, western China. The lake sits at 4000+ meters above sea level!

Dirt Road

Dirt road in rural Xinjiang Province in western China. This was taken somewhere near a town called Maket (bad spelling I'm sure, honestly don't know where it is on a map other than somewhere along the edge of the Taklamakan desert...)

Macau

Macau, June 2009

Chinese Dentist!

Chinese Dentist... So glad to be living in HK and not in mainland China!

Id Kah Mosque, China

The Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar, China is the largest mosque in Central Asia and can hold up to 20,000 people at one time.

NYC

Some images from my time spent in NYC last year... Of course, one of the things that every photographer should do once in their lifetime is take a picture of the Flatiron Building
 in southern Manhattan Island...

Passu, Pakistan

Can't wait for this road to be finished with the reconstruction and the problems in Pakistan to clear up a bit again. This is the Karakoram Highway leading towards Passu and 'Cathedral Ridge' which is one of my favorite mountains and one of the most beautiful places I've ever been.

Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Going through my archives for the first time in what feels like a year and finding lots of little gems like this one. It is from last July in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Image was taken from the top of my hotel in Sadaar Bazaar near sunset

Hong Kong's Central district from the Expo Center in Wan Chai

Famous lights of Wan Chai at nighttime

Another one of the double-decker trams on the Island... HK has more of these than any other place in the world!

Policeman at a protest in Victoria Park this afternoon

Some of the protesters at said protest...

Perhaps the future of 'journalism' is people like this chap blogging about what is happening... at the exact time it is happening. Its amazing what the internet has done to transform the world of media in the last few years with the addition of new social networking tools...

Bandar Seri Begawan

Reworked image of a mosque in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei.

Bike!

This is the clunker I took across Borneo the first time around...