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Takahē

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A New Guinness Record ?

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In Training For A New Olympic Event ?

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This is a black and white street photo in landscape format of a Chinese woman cycling with a huge load of plastic and cardboard grocery boxes. Beijing, PRC (2012).

The foreground is filled with a grey city street that stretches diagonally across the frame. On the far side is a pavement with low, about 1m high, plastic barrier lining the walkway. Behind the pavement is a tall white wall topped with white Chinese characters on a black background running the length of the wall. Near the top right corner are 3 pedestrians walking from right to left and slightly blurred out of focus. In the centre of the image is our lady cycling a rickshaw, from right to left and though the third wheel is not visible and it has the appearance of a 2 wheel bike. Attached to the rickshaw is what must be a hundred or more plastic and cardboard supermarket grocery boxes. 5 columns across that are 6 tall x 3 rows plus 8 more on her left side and a further 42 smaller cardboard boxes on her right. The load is lashed together randomly with ropes in such a way that would make a sailor cry in despair. So added up: thats 98 plastic boxes plus 42 cardboard, equals 140 boxes in total. In the time I watched her, I never saw or heard any of the boxes fall off!

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North Point (北角) Hong Kong..

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This is a black and white street photo in landscape format of buildings in the an older part of the city. North Point, Hong Kong (2013).

The camera is raised upwards slightly and angled along a street, so much of the opposite of the road is in view, other than the ground floor. In the foreground are two overhead street signs with Chinese characters on squares running horizontally across these long signs. The first sign, with about 2m in view and stretching across the image near the top, has large white characters on a black background. The second sign, stretching across the middle of the photo, perhaps 3m long, has large black characters on a white background. Behind these tired street signs is a low-rise facade of an older mixed-use Hong Kong urban building that extends away from the camera some 30m. There is no symmetry to the building, other than a very weathered, tired and stained exterior. Some of the apartments or businesses have balconies, some have windows, some open, some closed. Some have randomly placed external air conditioning units, some have washing outside. Occasionally a small piece of vegetation is seen heroically attempting to thrive in this dystopian, tropical (most of the year) urban jungle.

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