Some Good Pictures...
This page is where I put pictures of me taken by other people. As I'm usually the guy behind the camera, that doesn't happen too much.
This one was taken by Iain Masterton, a friend of mine, at a barbecue in the Hong Kong Gold Coast using my MZ-5, a manual focus 50mm f1.7 lens and T400CN film exposed at ASA 1600. All lighting is environmental. The funny shadow is a toasting fork...
On the streets and rooftops in Kowloon City with 747s roaring by overhead. This was June 1998, the week before the Old Kai Tak airport closed for good. I was up there with the Cathay Camera Club, documenting the last few days of the old airport. The planes come rushing by very low down here, as we're only a hundred yards or so from the start of the runway. Very impressive, and not a little frightening. These two pictures were taken by Billy Leung, I think.
...Followed by some strange ones.
On a junk in Stanley in June 1999. This would have been taken on a Dragon Boat day. The lady is Stefanie, who was drumming for us at the time. I was paddling (note: not rowing) with Scott Wilson, and that's the junk we had for the day. I'm not sure who took the picture. Possibly Amanda Blanksby.
Guitarin' with Blues Prohibited in Scorpio's Bar in the Hong Kong Gold Coast. That's my red Strat, and my 'cupid with a machine gun' t-shirt. I've no idea who took this picture. A friend of someone in the band, perhaps. Scorpio's was one of our few gigs out in the wilds of the Gold Coast. Great fun, but rather loud.
This is my Gene Simmons impersonation...
Um, there's not much I can say about this picture really.
These two show me hard at work in the Scott Wilson offices in Metroplaza, Kwai Fong, Hong Kong. These were taken by someone else, probably Rebecca Chan. In the first one (on the left) I'm actually wearing a suit! That certainly doesn't happen very often. Of course, I'm also carrying a guitar to offset it. The second picture has me wrestling with the computing might of a 200Mhz Pentium. At the time, Scott Wilson considered this the cutting edge of technology. This was 1998, when Pentium II machines were available.
Note that in these two pictures I'm both bearded and clean-shaven - thus you get the chance to see me and my evil twin on the same page. Muahahahahaha!
And back to a professional...
Here, I'm hard at work in Macau as a Paddock photographer for the 1999 Grands Prix. It really is hard work, glamourous ladies in skimpy attire notwithstanding. It must have been 35 degrees C in that Paddock, and I had about 10kg of Camera gear to carry around. Never did get out of the paddock, though. Every car I saw was doing five miles an hour at most. These Macau photographs by Iain Masterton.
On the left is me lurking in Leal Senada, the central square in Macau. Looks like late evening, judging by the tonal quality of the light. I think this was taken on a Cathay Camera Club day trip.
On the right, on patrol in the Paddock looking for a nice tasty bit of... motor.