I was very happy with my hotel room on the 27th floor. Normally I don’t like to shoot through window glass but here it was the only way to catch these views. Most notably there were no bad reflections on the glass therefore nobody is thinking about that it have been shot this way 🙂
If New York ist the “city which never sleeps”, the same is true for Hong Kong. Streets are very crowded, full of life, full of impressions on every corner, a steady flow of people which never stops. A real metropolis … here one typical scene of the streets, shot with a wide angle lens.
This modern building has been shot from the roof of a Red Bus. You can see how the building is pressed into the “corner”, place is rare in Hong Kong. 🙂
Often in Hong Kong sights, subway stations, observation points, visitor bridges end in a shopping mall, so there’s no excuse that time was tight and you couldn’t bring home some presents :-).
Many cities have their trademarks which are typical and you can only find there, one of those trademarks are the tram buses of Hong Kong. They are slim and have a first floor, inside its is relatively tight if you want to go upstairs …
When you have reached that place, you are at the last hurdle to reach Victoria Peak in Hong Kong. Here the waiting before and the drive with the Peak Tram are over, you passed the walk through the souvenir shops and soon you are before the two big front doors to reach the observation deck.
One typical style element of the big casinos, whether Macau or Las Vegas, are the big long escalators which brings you to the different floors of the big casino buildings. Often they are built and decorated with brass and glass elements.
I was in Apple stores a dozen times, but if I see one, I alway go in, even if I know that I won’t buy anything. It’s a nice atmosphere, I like looking at the devices, get a taste of the newest iPhones (mine is a 6 plus). Often it’s a reassurance, that my iPhone is good enough and currently there is no need to buy a new one 🙂 Here in Hong Kong the Apples store is in a very prominent place, near the Hong Kong Observation Wheel.
My nightly walking tour started from the Hong Kong Observation wheel, next I went over a bridge near the Apple store and then directly into downtown. From time to time I stopped for taking photos of the city lights 🙂
In Macau you get some kind of Las Vegas deja-vu, the hotels and interiors look very similar. Macau doesn’t have a real strip, this is one point for Las Vegas and they haven’t as many hotels, but what I could see many are currently under construction.
