Yum Cha (Drink Tea)

I can't recall since when my family have developed a habit to yum cha every weekend, yum cha is a noun in cantonese which basically means to eat dim sum and drink chinese tea at the chinese restaurant.

Tourists often feel a bit overwhelmed when they are presented with the long list of dim sum order sheet, wondering what should they order or what are the most famous dishes. I can't say my suggestions are the best but I would suggest our tourist friends to eat SiuMai (燒賣), which is appeared at the right bottom corner on the above picture, this is a must-eat (I guess) dim sum at the Chinese restaurant, but beware if you are allergic to prawn (like me><). Other dishes include rice noodle rolls (sorry that I don't have a picture here, will shoot it next time~), usually there are plain rice noodle roll / with barbecue pork inside / beef inside / vegetable or mushroom inside / seafood inside. Okay, other good dim sum in my opinion includes the Chinese bun (barbecue pork or chicken or the sweet ones), beef balls, prawn dumplings, normal dumplings, congee, and dessert like the sesame rice ball at the right top corner!

If you are crazy about dim sum, even if you pick any on the list randomly, it can't go very wrong...LoL

Yum Cha is something we must do when we are visiting in China, a very good way to enjoy food, tea and to explore the culture. Many visitors can master chopsticks even better than me because they really love Chinese food, I am really proud of our food and culture! :)

The 52-Week Collection - Week 23: The Mask

It is not easy to shoot in the summer...I am so exhausted now after half day working, only 2 hours' walking and 1.5 hour's shooting in the evening...I can feel my body was drying up under the sun, but I am still grateful that my brain has enough room to shoot pictures after work haha. It is really important to squeeze time to do what we like in our busy lives, it fuels up our emotion stability tanks.

It's good to meet up with old friends, Daisy is my secondary schoolmate and now we are graduated and working, time flies. I am really glad to have known a lot of good friends at schools. I didn't realize I do like this style so much, black clothing, black long gloves, red lips and hat. I was watching Breakfast at Tiffany's yesterday and I do like how the women dress up back then. Watching old movies once in a while is really great.

Looking back at my photos now I think my works are too alike, which is not a very good thing, I need some breakthroughs to further develop my styles, think I need to look at more works by other photographers to grow and develop.

The 52-Week Collection - Week 22: A Drop of Effort

Week 22, The weather is so hot and unstable, I was planning to go take pictures of Vitoria Harbour but am a bit concerned about the sudden changing weather lately so I think I might have to do that next week.

Glad that I finally got a new ball head for the tripod, the old platform only allows me to take pictures in landscape direction so I think it should be great to get one that can allow me to take portrait direction also~ money come and go since the day I realized I like photography...

This is what I have done finally...I didn't know why would I do water but anyway...I have shot for about 2 hours and this is one of those done in the first half hour...so exhausted...not a very wise choice to shoot water again until I get a small spot light ($ again), the environment was not bright enough so that was a bit difficult. The liquid's color is from food coloring, hmmm wanna try blue coloring next time hehe

"Be a learner all the time, learn from everything."

The 52-Week Collection - Week 21: Distinct

It has been about a week since I have start working, I am glad that I am still able to do my weekly photography project :)

At a time I was thinking digging old pictures, but I really would like to take new ones from now on because it would make the collection more meaningful. I will try my best :)

I was reading a book about close up images in the morning so I think it would be nice to do some assignments after reading. I went to the park and saw this colorful plant (which I don't know what it's called). I seldom see plants with that purple blue color with orange leafs, nature is so wonderful. Dare to be different and make a difference!

I am very happy about my equipment at the moment, however, now I know that equipment could matter in some situations. Sigh, as I said, photography is a money black-hole. I think, before I can afford the high end level equipment, I must learn to release the full potential of my existing equipment. Cheers.

The 52-Week Collection - Week 20: The Sleeping Beauty

As the old saying goes, summer is the season that good for sleeping (夏日炎炎正好眠). I definitely feel like this today, feel so sleepy. Tomorrow is another week, I feel good to have something to ground on, sometimes we may feel bored by the daily routine, but to me it's a sense of security. Back to the life like a few years ago: wake up early and get to the MTR station early enough to pick up the free newspaper. A lot to learn in every aspects and I am really grateful for that.

Can't believe it is already the 20th week since I have started the collection, time flies. I have been reading the book "How to win friends and influence people" lately, I think it's really important for us to learn how not to criticize and also how to see things from other points of view. This is something really easier said than done, however, I believe if we are able to do just these 2 things, it will make a big difference.

p.s. my website is finally in shape, check it out and give me some suggestions!
http://www.wix.com/chausesphotography/index

The 52-Week Collection - Week 19: The Inspiration

This week I would like to thank the person who inspired me a great deal in photography. Cherry and I met in school 2 years ago, I feel lucky that we met each other and revealed our interest in photography. She is a very generous person who teaches me a lot in this field and provides me with lots of opportunities to learn by practicing. I would like to say that if I haven't met Cherry, I wouldn't find taking portrait is so fun early on my learning curve. We definitely have lots of fun together and nice breakfast today!

Chauses is looking for models!

Hi all!

I am currently looking for models located in Hong Kong! whether you are female or male, Chinese or westerners, wanting to take portraits, family portraits, pets portraits, or even pre-wedding pictures, please leave a message here, I will see if we can arrange for a shoot!

I don't charge for the photos at the moment, you only need to pay for my transportation fee~ (and treat me meals if that's a whole day shooting lol)

For my portfolio, please refer to http://www.wix.com/chausesphotography/index

p.s. I don't have a studio at the moment so that would be outdoor shoot.

Best,
Chauses

The 52-Week Collection - Week 18: The Pretty

"Oh My God" were the three word I said when I saw Miki again today. It has almost been two years! If you can recognize...Miki was on week 2's picture of my collection, week 2's picture was taken in October 2008...and it is almost like two years now! I can't believe it LoL I can barely recognize Miki when I saw her today because she has grown so much now, so beautiful and young still!

We had a great day together photo shooting, and thanks Kelvin for joining us...and especially for your SD card. I had a weird feeling about my SD card before I went out today...and I couldn't find my other SD cards...and Bing! in the middle of the photo shoot "Card error! Please format your card!" Luckily Kelvin was with us today so I can borrow his card...Morale of the story is...trust your sixth sense and do precaution! Thanks Miki and Kelvin for such a great day, the fun shielded me from the heat today lol, and I heart photography =)

The 52-Week Collection - Week 17: Happy Together

It is very hot here this week and the sky is blue and nice, summer has come!

This pair of doll has joined the family for a long time and it will be nice to have a photo shoot for them! Happy together!

The 52-Week Collection - Week 16: Through The Eyes

" The eyes are the mirror of the soul" ~ Yiddish Proverb

Since the old days, human has been referring eyes to the window of ones' soul. Eye is the most attractive part of a creature in my opinion, let alone the usefulness of our eyes. Eyes somehow reflect what we have been through and our emotions, it is said that even though people don't show their emotions on their faces, people would sense how they feel by looking at their eyes. And, sometimes, when we are wordless, our eyes will do the communication.