Persongalleriet #707: Hanoi, Wednesday

March 8th, 2017.
Woke early and got myself out on the streets by 8. Just to walk somewhere else I took a route past the park with the Lenin statue, the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum and the sight nearest my hotel, The Temple of Literature (which looked nice, I might visit it later). Sorry, no tourist pics from these attractions this time...  ;-) I did get to do high 5's with an entire class of 10-year-olds at the Mausoleum!

Sanitation, RGB style!

Mainly the R and B parts in this one...

Back at the hotel by 10 for a mid-morning tea and snack. And a nap...  :D

Got out again at 12:30 and walked some new (for me of course) alleys near the hotel, just west of the main train station.

Found these guys playing their chess. The guy on the left spoke very good English and surprised me by knowing where Umeå is. He had even passed through on a trip to Sweden!

I got hungry and started looking for something to eat. I found this little place where the guy offered to make me my first Vietnamese kebab! He said since I was such a special customer, he wanted to take a photo of us together. His buddy held the phone and of course i asked for them to take a shot with my camera also.

That's my kebab he's hold and yeah, it was super delicious! Different than a "Swedish" kebab, more like Gyros with cilantro...  :-)

While waiting for the sandwich to be prepared an elephant walked by:

And this scene made me stand up and cross the street:

Three chicken.

The afternoon walk was cut short by massive rains. I jumped into a cab and holed up for the rest of the day.

Be well, everybody!

Niklas

Persongalleriet #704: Hong Kong, Sunday

March 5th, 2017.
I thought I'd do some tourist stuff today. See The Peak and ride the Ferry. It turned out it wasn't maybe the best day for that, since it was quite hazy. I wouldn't call it foggy, but not optimal for getting up a mountain and admiring the view. But  I carried out my little plan anyway.

This is from when it cleared up a bit and also using a touch of that Lightroom haze remover.

Suddenly, this guy showed up:

Too bad I didn't have a big telephoto lens on, I had to make do with 50 mm which is how far my kit lens goes.

Coming down from the hill, I noticed this was some kind of special day. People, or rather women, were sitting in small groups, eating, playing board games and card games and whatnot. They used all kinds of spaces. In the park, right in the middle of a cordened off street and also underneath the HSBC bank headquarters skyscraper. These women hade made their own little room using cardboard:

The chatter I heard and the way these women looked wasn't quite Chinese. After a while I asked a woman what was going on and she said they were all Philipino women who had organized a ship going back home to the Phillipines with stuff packed up in suitcases or large cardboard boxes. Further on down the road I found this activity happening, very very intensely!

On the Star Ferry.

Be well, everybody!

Niklas

Persongalleriet #681: Beijing 15 juni

Har haft ett par dagars uppehåll från bloggen och en knapp veckas uppehåll från mitt beijingprojekt. Nu är jag tillbaks med ett laddning färgbilder:

Körsbärsblom.

Meat Street.

Handarbete på gatan.

Tegel bakom fönsterglaset.

Mor och son.

Ha det gott, alla!

/Niklas

Persongalleriet #647: Beijing, Day 15

June 28th, 2016.
It was a rainy day. After the morning walk, I tried to go out several times, when the weather looked better, but the showers immediately started. Here's some of what I managed:

Man with Pigeon.

Yellow Star.

Breakfast.

At the Fishmonger.

Suitcases.

Chinese Dreams II.

Bunny.

Teamwork.

Showers.

Be well, everybody!

/Niklas

Persongalleriet #628: Duvorna vid Nya Moskéen

Istanbul, 12/4 2015.
De här duvorna och de här små båsen, där man säljer fågelfrö framför Yeni Camii i Istanbul, är väldigt flitigt fotade. Här kommer ett par försök från min kamera:

Trevlig helg, alla!

/Niklas