Hong Kong, China II

Monday, April 17, 2006

Hong Kong, China II

The mysterious smells of cooking, diesel smoke, morning coffee and faulty plumbing all mix in the cool, humid morning air.

The impossible Hong Kong skyline across from Tsim Sha Tsui has only grown more...more since I was here ten years ago. It’s amazing what you can accomplish with bamboo scaffolding and non-union labor. There’s a knock-off of Shanghai’s Jin Mao Tower over in the financial district now, but it’s decorated with some crazy white fangs at the summit. Post-modernist, predatory architecture.

Overhead on the Star Ferry ride across Hong Kong Harbour...

“Does anybody know where the life jackets are? On these ferries...? They’re not safe....They should tell you where they are...Are you listening to me?....”

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INTRODUCTION

For much of my adult life, I have been lucky enough to get paid doing the things I love most. My work as a itinerant travel and wildlife photographer has sent me around the world and across all seven continents.

Over the last two decades, I have had ample opportunity to appreciate the absurdities of life on the road, having once spent 27 memorable hours during my first trip to Kenya digging a bogged safari truck out using only a sauce pan. In addition to my work in Africa, I have traveled extensively in Alaska, Australia, Antarctica and Asia.

I hope to work my way through the rest of the alphabet in a timely fashion.

Each year, I spend five or six months on the road. Along the way, I try to make time to scribble something in my notebooks. More often than not, it’s about whatever mishap has befallen me on any particular day. This collection offers a random sample from those journals, notebooks and emails.