Daido Moriyama (森山大道)

About a year ago I chanced by this clip with a "Japanese Photographer" taking photos on the street. I didn't know who he was back then but this guy had opened up a whole new world of street photography for me. Since then I ran through Hong Kong taking candid photos of people very much like how this guy did in the clip. This became my style of photography.

When I get more deeply into photography, the more I read on this subject. This name Daido Moriyama (森山大道) comes up time and time again in articles, in forums or mentioned by other fellow Flickr users. I become interested in his work and search for his books and works via Google and on Amazon.com. Only then I suddenly remember this clip. Could it be Moriyama-san who was in that clip I watched so long ago when I started out on photography? But I loss the link to the clip.... and only after much searching I found the answer to my question. Indeed it was Moriyama-san! Now I know the name of the person who inspired me into "Street Photography".

Got over 700 views a day on Flickr!

Wow! My photo stream today got over 700 hits and the number is still counting as the day has not ended yet. I'm very excited about this although such number should be nothing special considered Flickr has millions of users. Still I'm pretty proud of myself given I only started seriously into photography about 3 months ago. Forgive me for congratulating myself... hahaha

Abandon Bus Depot

Signal Light - L1
Originally uploaded by Kenny Lok

I said I would go back to that abandon bus depot last Tuesday - I did. And it was after two failed attempt during the week - one was stopped because of the rain and another time was because I saw two security guards in the area. I had to wait for Sunday morning to take these shots. Rare persistence for me!

One Photo a Day

Flowers on the Wall
Originally uploaded by Kenny Lok

I started a self imposed "One Photo a Day" project about a month ago in which I would take at least one photo each day and post it to Flickr (check out my 365 set there). Intention is to force myself to look around myself and not to loss the sense of wonder a child would have to everything surrounding us. It is easy for a grown up to take things for granted and become numb to this world.

So far, I am having lots of fun with this project. My skill improved and I become more observant (I think/hope so, haha). However, sometimes it leads to embarrassment too. Like today when I took these three photos in an abandon bus depot behind my office during lunch time. I was so focus on finding the right subject and best angle to shoot, I loss sight of anything else. Then I came back to reality when a colleague called me and jokingly ask me whether the company was consider buying the land with me doing the survey. So embarrassing! Well, I countered and said, "Yes, and your department will be the first to moved to this building".... hahaha

I quite like these 3 pictures that I took. Actually, I have not finished with that abandon depot. I will go back again as I see many photo opportunities in there.

Okay. Let's give it another go

Couple of years ago I tried to start a blog. Like many of the things I do, I am not persistent enough and the blog died. With this new found interest of photography and the "Project 365" that I started, I decided to give blogging another go. Hopefully it will be different this time.

As a teaser, let me post one of my favorite photos I took recently.



Hong Kong Victoria Harbor. World famous for its beauty and every one in Hong Kong should be proud of. With all the harbor reclamation projects that's going on around the harbor, I hope that its beauty won't fade within my life time.