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The wonderful thing about Hong Kong, as many people already know, is the potential for mini-breaks. This weekend the destination was Cebu in the Philippines, or as we came to discover, Little Korea. Yes, the menus were all in English… and Korean. Every second restaurant was Korean, and when we dropped by the Imperial Palace …

A quick blog for a Tuesday evening. Here is a skyscape panorama over Lake Crowley in California taken from a lay-by on the I395.

I was asked today to save a photo. Could I put my photoshop to good use and save a landscape photo that was suffering from a common problem here in Hong Kong: extreme haze? (Click on images to see larger versions). Here’s the photo before the post-processing efforts. And here is the final product. So, …

This picture was taken on a fairly regular but overcast day in Hong Kong. The combination of humidity and….errr….air pollution can make for someone good opportunities to capture images like these. A very good way to enhance light rays is to use the HDR technique which takes three images taken at different exposures and combines …

You probably already know that I like taking panoramas. It was only the other week, however, that I discovered the pocket camera I recently bought (a Samsung ST93) had the auto-panning panorama feature. Instead of taking a series of pictures and stitching them together on the computer afterwards, the camera does it immediately and combines …

It was a beautiful day today, so we went for a walk along the Wilson Trail. Starting near Park View, the trail runs along the side of a small reservoir before climbing up Violet Hill and then down the hill to Tai Tam Reservoir. The first image below is a single shot with the Tai …

A short post because I just saw that www.bhphotovideo.com is offering a rebate of varying amounts on Canon lenses until mid-November.

Yes, that’s me standing precariously on the very edge of very long drop into Bryce Canyon while taking a shot for my California National Parks project.

If you haven’t visited my galleries page recently, you’ll see a lot of new collections from past expeditions and projects that are now available for your viewing pleasure. Click here for the galleries.

I’ve visited more the 60 countries in the last few years. And I’m already planning the 2012 breaks and photography expeditions. In fact, it’s been partially outsourced! But while I am looking at the map of Asia and all of the places I have not yet been, there’s also a thought of re-visiting some of …