Just working a wedding and the client didn’t arrange dinner for us so
have to pop down to the loby coffee shop for a quick bite. My hk$260
hamburger just arrived. It looks pretty tasty and since it is costing
my left nut… It had better be… Holy expensive hamburger…
UGH what a pile of shite that was… one of the worst bloody hamburgers I have ever eaten. Greasy and no flavour. Just meat, prepared without any thought to seasoning, in a bun, with lettuce and tomato and a basket of fries… I can say one thing, it all looked fancy, but the taste was shite… very dissapointed and with the bill coming to a grand total of HK$275 also very pissed off. So next time you are staying at the InterCon in TST and feel like having a Hamburger best to head to MacDonalds across the way, it tastes better and you will have saved $255..
Thanks to my friend Chris Jean at realthemes.com I am the first person
to be able blog pictures straight from my iPhone.
The camera on the iPhone is really not that good so I will try to
limit its uses to interesting things, like today when we are shooting Anusha
Dandekar of India Mtv fame…
Its raining in Hong Kong, and thanks to Chris Jean, I can now post to
this here blog staight from my iPhone. Chris of http://realthemes.com
has developed a Wordpress tweak to acomplish this. Thanks Chris…
This picture was taken out the window of a photography studio on the 6th floor of Chai Wan Industrial bldg looking down to Wing Tai Road.
Today I did some spring cleaning, first I cleaned out all my old boxes and stacks of papers and stuff lying around. I collected a pile of unlabeled CDRs and put them all in a pile. Once the physical cleaning was done I set about to do some digital cleaning, basically finding out what is on all those unlabeled discs…
Well quite a few intersting old pics from the last ten years in HK… the one that I like the most was from my gory (no not glory) days as a male model… I can only look back now and laugh, so to share the laughs here is the Giordano Campaign I did in 1999… OMG 30Kgs ago… gotta get to the gym…
This weekend I went up to Dai Long Wan beach for a little R&R and basically to get out of the city for awhile. Dai Long Wan is lovely, it is well out of the way and requires quite an effort to get to, but it is well worth the effort once you get there. The beach is long and has nice white sand, and whats more the water is always crystal clear. Dai Long Wan is exposed to the South China Sea and as a result there are always small waves for surfing and as is the case with most surf beaches there is a rip current otherwise known as undertow. The situation at Dai Long Wan is that the rip current is always in a little area close to the shore almost like a small lagoon and it is very deceptive. Well while sitting on the beach over comes the GFS helicopter, Hong Kong’s big whirly bird. On the beach are half a dozen of HK’s volunteer park rangers. These are the people who spend their weekends patrolling the country parks helping out hikers in distress.
What had happened was that a couple of teenagers had been swimming and gotten caught in the RIP, an aussie surfer lady who is always on the beach had helped them out and pulled them to the beach, but not before one of them had swallowed alot of water. Well he went into shock and thus the GFS came to the rescue. That is when everyone else on the beach got out their cameras and iphones and started snapping away. Well not to be out done I grabbed my little Leica and snapped this great shot as the helicopter lifted off. Yes is has gone straight into my Alamy stock…
Moral of the story, if you are going to Dai Long Wan beach in Sai Kung Country park BEWARE the rip current…
Recently I read about the security issues with Wordpress 2.5 so I decided to upgrade to the recommended 2.5.1., oh what a big mistake this was. My server provides a one-click upgrade (yeah right)! I clicked and then my whole blog, this blog, the one that has been running for almost 4 years now, went… well it went away… far far away where no one could see it…
Grumble grumble… I CAN FIX THIS, I thought, I can fix anything (yeah right) so into the code I go. I know a little about WP inner workings, but really not much at all. So after a very frustrating weekend trying to fix it, mean while my blog gets dropped from Googles index, I am very frustrated. So finally I decide enough of this time to call in a professional Wordpress fixer, so I posted a request on: wp-pro@lists.automattic.com This is the WordPress list where you can find qualified WP fix it guys, like Chris…
Within minutes I had a reply from Chris Jean of http://www.realthemes.com followed quite soon after by a few other replies. Chris seemed sharp and on the ball so I accepted his offer of fixing my blog for US$50. I set up the admin so he could get to work and then clicked over to PayPal to send him $.
Well within minutes there was action and within two hours it was all fixed and working properly again. Chris was very helpful, we chatted on Skype while he worked and i learned a few things about working with WP. So if you are looking to upgrade your WordPress blogging package or have a custom theme built to your specifications check out Chris over at http://www.realthemes.com
This past week we were called upon to produce a shoot for well known Los Angles Hollywood Photographer Kevin Lynch. He was shooting PR material of JET LEE, for the upcoming Mummy3 movie.
From start to finish the whole thing was one big learning experience. Watching this master photographer work was great. Kevin shoots lots of movie posters for Hollywood as well as UFC (Ultimate Fighting Champions). His knowledge of photography, lighting and equipment is amazing. To top it all off, he is also a very nice guy, laid back and willing to share his knowledge of the art.
The production was spread over two days. First day was prelight and second day was shoot day. Kevin’s lighting is top notch and he uses only the best equipment available, most notably the Hasselblad H3D. The detail on this state of the art camera is scary. During the prelight day, I was asked to stand in for one of the shots and this is the result. Even more scary… ha ha…
