Personal photos/text taken in/out of Vietnam combat zone from perspective of copilot on USAF C-130 345th Tactical Airlift Crew. Not just about the war, but also about the people/places of the region during 1972. This is where I got my first Nikon film SLR which turned into lifelong passion albeit now Canon digital SLR. The photos are recent digital scans from old 35mm slides wasting away in hot/cold attic for 40 years. Extensive Photoshop editing has been used to make them somewhat presentable.
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Monday, February 21, 2011
Hong Kong Nights
Hong Kong at night as seen from Victoria Peak – 1973. Most interesting here is how this contrasts the unbelievable changes that have taken place in the last 40 years. On the far side of the harbor is Kowloon. On the near side of harbor in Hong Kong City to the right is a conspicuously tall waterfront skyscraper … this was the Connaught Center later to be renamed the Jardine House. At 50 stories and over 500 feet it was the tallest building in all of Asia in 1973. Today the Jardine House is lost among much larger buildings some of which are two and three times taller. Today (2011) Jardine House does not even make the top 100 tallest building list for Hong Kong.
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