"how to spend it..."

Posted by hugo poon (hong kong, Hong Kong) on 15 October 2008 in Business & Industry and Portfolio.

What a week! Going through it seems like passing a century, when everything I met was on the brink of collapse...Then this question caught my mind. "How to spend it?" Spend what? Money? Not sure if I'll still have much left when the financial crisis (and the economy slump that follows) is over. Time? It has always been a big problem and I'm pretty sure I have to work even harder for less in the days to come... But don't know why, I feel I'll be just as "rich" if not richer, but only on a different level of life - friends are becoming real friends indeed these days, the family is getting close, and I'm still hungry for more picture taking - the fire and passion in my heart remain just as strong... That's how I'm gonna spend my life; I'll spend it wisely.

A newspaper stand and a tram stop, Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong

I do not regard myself as a photographer. I'm an ordinary man but extraordinarily obsessed with capturing all the memorable scenes that I encounter in my everyday life. It's like an excited traveller craving to record his memorable journey in a memorable way, but in my case, it's the journey of my life ... If I can record my encounters in such a way that they leave an image on the mind of myself and other viewers, it's a tremendous joy and some accomplishment...
In terms of photography, I'm trying to preserve the moments as my eyes see "something" and my heart feels it too. As such, I seldom feel interested in planned, arranged or manipulated photographs...