Have cart, will travel. A cobbler on a busy sidewalk in Shenzhen, China, repairs shoes while you wait. Shoes are cheap in China. The cheapness is reflected in their need for repair. I think Mrs. Stevo’s record is 5 hours from purchase to cobbler. Of course, that hasn’t stopped her shoe-buying obsession. Chinese women are the same as their western counterparts.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.
Benjamin Disraeli

Captured: October 18, 2008. on the Star Ferry, Victoria Harbor, Hong Kong.

You see a lot of scooters in China. They are cheap, compared to automobiles. And you would be amazed how much stuff or how many people will fit on one small conveyance. I’ve seen a family of four riding happily on more than once, a smaller electric version of the venerable station wagon, sans wood paneling.

No scooter for me. The roads are scary enough without me adding to the mayhem

Captured: August 19, 2008.

You could call this “Caught in the Act.”  I was roaming through Chiang Mai, Thailand, on a cloudy morning when the young monks at one of the city’s numerous wats were called to prayer.  As I started snapping through the carved archway this lad turned around.

I seem to have an affinity for urban monks. Maybe it’s how out of place, yet not out of place,  they seem.

Captured: January 31, 2008.

A popular tea stand on Stanley Street (the Street of Camera Shops), Central District, Hong Kong SAR. Getting a decent shot was difficult. There was always too many damn people in the way. I wasn’t brave enough to try the tea, it was the color of a mud puddle.

Capture: September 13, 2008.

Nathan Road at noon. Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China.

September 13, 2008.