It’s quite rare to be able to be able to have lunch with your friends on an open terrace facing the sea in Hong Kong. Tapeo in Sai Wan Ho offers great food and a relaxing view, if your eyes are missing a bit of long distance viewing. 
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Poverty; a global issue…
The pic below was used by Italian website Panorama to illustrate an article on poverty.
Apple pics
It’s fun to see how my pics are being used in articles by clients of the AFP photo wire service. This first pic has been used by a French TV info website and the one below for a Romanian article on Apple after Steve Jobs.
A street vendor takes a drag as she waits for customers at her clothes stall in Hong Kong
Street vendor checking out her phone at her bag shop
Graham Nash & Jeff Ament
I was lucky enough to be bought tickets for 2 days at Hard Rock Calling by some great friends as a joint birthday gift. Amazing!
Two of the bands I saw have members who are also very much involved with photography. Graham Nash, of Crosby Stills and Nash (above), opened the first digital fine art digital print gallery in the world and Jeff Ament, of Pearl Jam, has shot much of their and other bands’ album art.
I bumped into Graham Nash yesterday on Oxford Street, the day after I and 50,000 other people had heard him play, in my opinion at least, some of the greatest songs ever written. I failed to mention that me, my brother and cousins performed his composition “Our House” during a family member’s wedding banquet in Hong Kong last year. Probably for the best…
Please check out these Graham Nash photography related links:
http://www.explore.grahamnash.com
http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0105/nash_intro.htm
And these on Jeff Ament’s Photography:
http://www.angelfire.com/la/ament/jeffart
And most importantly, a huge thanks goes to my friends who made the weekend the best of the year so far.
Stocks in Hong Kong…
Hong Kong
Just been thinking about my Mother’s balcony, Red Dog, food and 120 in Hong Kong. Not sure if I’m even going yet, but will keep you updated… Fingers crossed!
Major Project…
This major project thing is quite daunting. Not because I’m scared of doing it, but just a bit concerned about choosing the right subject. I plan to be based in Hong Kong during this time & have several ideas of what I could shoot whilst in S.E. Asia. Here’s one of them:
Binlang Girls & Beetle Nut stalls in Taiwan.
A “bin-lang” (betel nut) shop usually consists of a single fully-detached booth, or room, measuring less than 3 meters by 2 meters that is elevated above street level. Large picture windows provide two or more of the walls, allowing those who pass by a complete view of a brightly painted interior and a provocatively dressed young woman preparing betel nuts for sale.
Occasionally, such as in more competitive locations, she can instead be seen dancing, or otherwise, outside her shop in an attempt to attract potential customers.
A shop can additionally be identified from afar by several multicoloured fluorescent tubes or flashing neon lights that frame the windows or that are arranged radially above the shop. Customers stop on the road side and wait for the girls to exchange a pocket-sized bag of betel nuts, ready to be chewed, for cash; others casually slow down their cars to peer in before driving away.
The betel nut trade remains controversial; whilst it is important for the local economy, the betel nut is both highly addictive and a well-established cause of oral cancer, which is disproportionately common in Taiwan.
I’d like to do a photo essay about the betel nut’s journey from the farm, to the booths and also show the effects of it’s use by photographing people who have been or are affected by oral cancer.
I originally started this story in late 2007 before coming over to London for the MA and feel this could be a good opportunity to go below the surface & complete it.
Anthony Wallace 
