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October 10th, 2013
Photographer Saying: Photographers must be part of the picture!
October 5th, 2013
Photographer Saying: Rhein II is a photograph made by German visual artist Andreas Gursky in 1999.
In 2011, a print was auctioned for $4.3 million, making it the most expensive photograph ever sold.
October 4th, 2013
Photographer Saying:Try everything.... Photojournalism, fashion, Landscape, wedding, portraiture, nudes, whatever.
October 3rd, 2013
Photographer Saying: Photographic skills upgrading is to use the time and effort, not with the equipment!
September 18th, 2013
I will go to Tai Hang to shoot on Fire Dragon Dance every year.
Timetable:
18th - 20th September 2013 (7:30 pm - 10:30 pm)
19th September 2013 (7:30 pm - 10:00 pm)
Hope to see you!
In the 19th century, the people of Tai Hang began performing a dragon dance to stop a run of bad luck afflicting their village. More than a century later, their village has been all but swallowed up by Hong Kongˇ¦s fast-growing city. But the dragon keeps on dancing. It has even danced its way onto Chinaˇ¦s third national list of intangible cultural heritage.
All this started a few days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, sometime around 100 years ago. First a typhoon slammed into the fishing and farming community of Tai Hang, this was followed by a plague, and then when a python ate the villagersˇ¦ livestock, they said enough was enough. A soothsayer decreed the only way to stop the chaos was to stage a fire dance for three days and nights during the upcoming festival. The villagers made a huge dragon from straw and covered it with incense sticks, which they then lit. Accompanied by drummers and erupting firecrackers, they did what they were told and danced for three days and three nights ˇV and the plague disappeared.
The people of Tai Hang no longer fish or farm for a living, but they still perform the fire dragon dance on the three days that straddle the Mid-Autumn Festival. The event involves 300 performers, 72,000 incense sticks and a 67-metre-long dragon producing a spectacle of fire, smoke and dynamic fury as it dances and winds its way through the narrow backstreets of Tai Hang. Traditional, timeless and vibrant: this is Hong Kong as you dreamed it would be.
Source: http://www.discoverhongkong.com/us/see-do/culture-heritage/living-culture/tai-hang-fire-dragon-dance.jsp
