The butt end of the Hong Kong year

The difference a day sometimes makes...

Photos that phones don't take - Sheung Sze Wan at night

Light trail left by a phone torch in Evan's pocket as he zig-zags down the hill on his scooter.

The bay, translucent feeling night-cool water.  

Village roofs, with the Sawfish of the TV-aerial in front of High Junk Peak

The photos of beauty

I don’t think I’m an aspiring sports photographer. More a binary life leaving limited options.  These are the photos from today that I like, but of course they don’t tell the sports story:

Evan, Maxime and Teo, cool colours and soft sky with the city in the background.  Below that, signing a shirt for Ollie who is leaving Hong Kong; transience; below that, blurred action of Ev against DEA Tigers.  This is more what rugby feels like to me visually.

Happy Valley tournament

Before the game, waiting to run on, butterflies zooming

On the break from the back of the maul against Valley Fort...

...and into the traffic.  The bummer about playing in the forwards is that there's never much room around.

Ev's big thing is physical courage, he's just undaunted by anything.  Here's his m.o. played out against Sandy Bay, bigger boy coming hard at him, lines up, gets low, and hangs on irrespective of the distortion the rest of him is put through.  Not the best day at the office for the Stingrays, played four, lost two, won and drew one.

Cherry Park grudge match

Ev off his line taking a big box ball at Cherry Park against the old nemesis KCC.  His team played well, he kept a clean sheet and the final score was 4-0.

Thanksgiving night, on the roof, birthday boy

Happy days, I've just got back from my last trip of the year, went well, Dylan's just finished exams and feeling good about how they went, boys are having a shower and we are all off to Roy and Debbie's for Thanksgiving dinner.  Chatting to Dylan, who's birthday it is, on the Cox's roof before heading off :-)