Stanley Dragon Boat Championships 2007

Hong Kong Stanley Dragon Boat Championships 2007 (2007年香港赤柱國際龍舟錦標賽)
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Event: Hong Kong Stanley Dragon Boat Championships 2007 (2007年香港赤柱國際龍舟錦標賽)
Place: Stanley Main Beach, Stanley, Hong Kong
Date: 19 June, 2007
Equipment: Canon 30D, Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM


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Hong Kong Stanley Main Beach Location Map


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Ischnura Senegalensis

Orthetrum Chrysis (青紋細蟌) : Common Bluetail
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Place: Hong Kong Park (香港公園), Central, Hong Kong
Equipment: Canon 30D, Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM , B+W CPL

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Orthetrum Chrysis

Orthetrum Chrysis (華麗灰蜻) : Red-faced Skimmer
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Place: Hong Kong Park (香港公園), Central, Hong Kong
Equipment: Canon 30D, Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM , B+W CPL

Orthetrum is a genus of dragonflies in the Libellulidae family. It is a very large genus, with more than 80 species, spread across the Old World.

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Aquatic Plant Show 2007

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Event: Aquatic Plant Show 2007 (2007年水生植物展覽)
Place: Hong Kong Park (香港公園), Central, Hong Kong
Equipment: Canon 30D, Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM , B+W CPL

Show Objectives:

To appreciate the beauty and ecology of aquatic plants

• know more about aquatic plants
• To promote greening awareness among the public

Show period

• 23 June (Saturday) to 8 July (Sunday)

Opening hours

• 23 June 2007 : 11:00 am - 6:00 pm　
• 24 June to 8 July 2007 : 9:00 am - 6:00 pm　

Location

• Hong Kong Park Display Plant House at Conservatory
• Hong Kong Park Lake

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Location Map : Hong Kong Park (香港公園)
How to go there : Admiralty MTR Exit C1, take footbridge across road then take escalators to the park.
Park grounds open 6am - 11pm

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Rainbow Over the Clouds

Rainbow Over the Clouds at Yuen Long
Stock Photo ID: 070625-061207

Date: 25 June, 2007 06:12 am HKG+8
Place: Yuen Long, New Territories, Kowloon
Equipment: Canon 30D, Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM, B+W CPL

First time to see a rainbow over the clouds. Take a closer look.


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Tam Kung Festival - Piu Sik Parade

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Piu Sik Parade (飄色巡遊) (children on float) in front of Tam Kung Temple during Hong Kong Tam Kung Festival

Event: Tam Kung Festival (譚公誕) - The birthday of Tam Kung
Place: Tam Kung Temple (譚公廟), Shau Kei Wan (筲箕灣), Hong Kong
Equipment: Canon 30D, Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM

Piu Sik where Piu means floating and Sik means colourful. The children dressed in lavish costumes, as fairies, characters from Chinese legends or modern heroes, are suspended by a group of hidden rods and wires. When seeing from a distance, they appear to be floating.


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Spotlight

Spotlight (百寶商) Entrance

Place: Megabox (九龍灣紅點), Kowloon Bay, Kowloon Tong
Equipment: Canon 30D, Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM

Spotlight, Australia's largest chain of superstores specialising in home interior, fashion fabrics and craft products, grand opening of its first flagship store in Hong Kong at 9 June, 2007.

Official Website : http://www.spotlight.hk/

Address: Megabox, Enterprise Square 5, 38 Wang Chui Road, Kowloon Bay
Opening hour: 10am - 10pm



The new store is also the chain's first store in the Greater China region. Spotlight offers over 150,000 products across six categories: arts & crafts, furnishings, home decor, dressmaking, party supplies and bed linen.



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B&Q

B&Q (百安居) Entrance

Place: Megabox (九龍灣紅點), Kowloon Bay, Kowloon Tong
Equipment: Canon 30D, Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM

B&Q (百安居) , Britain's largest home improvement retailer, its first store in Hong Kong was opened. The store will be wholly owned by Hong Kong-based B&Q Asia Limited, a subsidiary of the Kingfisher Group. The project will involve total investment of over HK$200 million and create about 200 new jobs for Hong Kong.

The new B&Q shop will take up 120,000 square feet over two floors in the MegaBox mall of Enterprise Square 5 in Kowloon Bay. MegaBox is Hong Kong' s first vertical mega mall, with over 19 storeys across 1.1 million square feet of retail space, MegaBox.



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Megabox

Megabox (九龍灣紅點)

Place: Megabox (九龍灣紅點), Kowloon Bay, Kowloon Tong
Equipment: Canon 30D, Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM

Enterprise Square Five (企業廣場五期) is a shopping mall and office building in Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong. It was developed by Kerry Properties. It opened in June 2007.

The property comprises the MegaBox shopping mall and two office buildings. It is the largest single property among the Enterprise Square properties, occupying 1.6 million square feet and costing HK$2 billion to build.

MegaBox ((九龍灣紅點) occupied 1.1 million square feet and will have 19 floors. It will house Hong Kong's first IMAX theatre, a B&Q store and a new ice skating rink named MegaIce.









Location Map
Address : Enterprise Square 5 MEGA Box, 38 Wang Chui Road, Kowloon Bay

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2007 World Ice Hockey Fives

2007 World Ice Hockey Fives (2007世界五人冰上曲棍球賽) : Japan Red Bullets Team

Date: 17 June, 2007
Place: MegaIce, Megabox, Kowloon Bay, Kowloon Tong
Equipment: Canon 30D, Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM
Woman's tournament : Hong Kong Women's Ice Hockey Organization(WIHO) vs Japan Red Bullets








Hong Kong Women's Ice Hockey Organization(WIHO) player


Adrienne Li scored 20 sec into overtime. Hong Kong Women's Ice Hockey Organization(WIHO) 1-0 win over Japan Red Bullets


we have won the gold medal, smiles...

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8-1 Parachute Brigade

8-1 Parachute Brigade of the People's Liberation Army (解放軍 八一跳傘隊)

Date: 18 June, 2007
Place: Shek Kong Airfield (石崗機場), Shek Kong (石崗) Yuen Long (元朗), New Territories
Equipment: Canon 30D, Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM

8-1 Parachute Brigade of the People's Liberation Army (解放軍 八一跳傘隊) start training at Shek Kong Airfield to prepare the parade which will be held on July 1 to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

Tam Kung Festival - Chinese Martial Arts

Chinese martial arts (中國武術), being demonstrated at Tam Kung Temple during Tam Kung Festival.

Event: Tam Kung Festival (譚公誕) - The birthday of Tam Kung
Place: Tam Kung Temple (譚公廟), Shau Kei Wan (筲箕灣), Hong Kong
Equipment: Canon 30D, Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM

Chinese martial arts describes the enormous variety of martial arts styles originating in China. kung fu, also gongfu (功夫), wushu (武術) and guoshu (國術) are popular Chinese terms that have become synonymous with Chinese martial arts abroad.



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Tam Kung Festival - Lion Dance

Lion Dance in front of Tam Kung Temple during Tam Kung Festival

Event: Tam Kung Festival (譚公誕) - The birthday of Tam Kung
Place: Tam Kung Temple (譚公廟), Shau Kei Wan (筲箕灣), Hong Kong
Equipment: Canon 30D, Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM

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Tam Kung Festival - Dragon Dance

Dragon Dance in front of Tam Kung Temple during Tam Kung Festival

Event: Tam Kung Festival (譚公誕) - The birthday of Tam Kung
Place: Tam Kung Temple (譚公廟), Shau Kei Wan (筲箕灣), Hong Kong
Equipment: Canon 30D, Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM

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Hong Kong Police - Airport Security Unit

Hong Kong Police Airport Security Unit officer

Event: Disciplined Services Joint Exhibition to Celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Establishment of the HKSAR (紀律部隊慶祝香港特別行政區成立十周年匯展)
Place: Piazza Areas of the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Tsim Sha Tsui, in Kowloon
Date: 9 June, 2007
Equipment: Canon 30D, Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM

The Airport Security Unit (ASU) (機場特警) is a special branch of the Hong Kong Police tasked with the security of Hong Kong's airport.

Unlike regular officers, the ASU officers, generally regarded as the elite of the Hong Kong Police Force because of their extraordinary physical prowess, bear machine guns and with uniforms similar to tactical or paramilitary units.



Weapons:

• M16 rifle(AR15-A2)
• Beretta 92
• GLOCK 17
• Heckler & Koch MP5
• Telescopic batons

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Hong Kong Red Tide

A red tide (紅潮) off the coast of Victoria Harbour

Place: Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon
Date: 10 June, 2007
Equipment: Canon 850IS

The red tide reported on May 31 in Ma Wan has spread over Hong Kong waters, an inter-departmental red tide working group reported today (8 June, 2007).

The occurrence at Ma Wan reported by Agriculture Fisheries and Conservation Department staff on May 31 still persists, and spreads to some beaches and fish culture zones. Several red tide reports were received, from June 4 to June 7, by AFCD, Leisure and Cultural Services Department, Environmental Protection Department, Water Services Department and Marine Police. Beaches including Deep Water Bay, Repulse Bay, Middle Bay, South Bay, Chung Hom Kok, Hung Sing Yeh Beach, St. Stephen’s Bay, Ma Wan Tung Wan Beach and beaches around Tuen Mun are affected. Fish culture zones including Ma Wan, Lo Tik Wan, Sok Kwu Wan and Tung Lung Chau are affected. Others include Yung Shue Wan on Lamma Island, East Lamma Channel, Quarry Bay Water Front, West Kowloon Water Front, North of Lautau Island, Victoria Harbour and Cheung Chau Typhoon Shelter.

Red tide is also reported today at Lung Kwu Tan by Marine Police.

"The red tide was formed by Cochlodinium sp. (旋溝藻), which is rare in Hong Kong waters and non-toxic", a spokesman for the working group said.

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Maryknoll Convent School

In 1935, Sir Andrew Caldecott (郝德傑) was appointed governor of Hong Kong. His tenure was the shortest in Hong Kong colonial history, for he was appointed the second last governor of Ceylon a little more than a year later to handle the threat to the British administration caused by the overwhelming national liberation movement in Ceylon. When arriving in Hong Kong to assume the Governorship, Caldecott, unusually, elected to wear civilian dress, something that would not happen again until the arrival, in 1992, of the last colonial Governor, Chris Patten.








Covered playground view from Childrens Playground


Covered playground view from Childrens Playground





Maryknoll Convent School (Primary Section) - Swimming Pool


Maryknoll Convent School (Primary Section) Covered Playground viewed from Childrens Playground






Place: Maryknoll Convent School (Secondary Section) (MCS, 瑪利諾修院學校)
Address: 130 Waterloo Road, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong (九龍窩打老道130號)

Maryknoll Convent School (MCS, 瑪利諾修院學校) is a prestigious Roman Catholic girls' school with primary and secondary sections at Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong. It was founded by the American Maryknoll Sisters in Hong Kong in 1925. MCS is well-known for its distinguished academic results and school traditions. It also has a good reputation for its cultural achievemnts at both local and international levels.

This is a year of celebration for Maryknoll as 2007 marks the 70th anniversary of our primary school building since commencement. It was in May 1937 that the Maryknoll Sisters and young students moved into the red brick structure, which is now a Grade III historic building, the icon for our school and a landmark on Waterloo Road.

The School have 30 classrooms, 3 computer rooms, 2 halls, 2 music rooms, 2art rooms, a science room, a library, a student activity center, swimming pools and 5 children playground.

School Brief History :

• Feb.11, 1925 : MCS opens with 12 students in the convent parlour at 103 Austin Road.
  
• 1931 : The school moves to Prince Edward Road.
• 1937 : The new building at Waterloo Road and Boundary Street becomes the new MCS.
• 1950 : MCS celebrates its Silver Anniversary.
• 1960 : The Secondary School moves into a new building at 5 Ho Tung Road built because of a significant increase in the number of students. The Primary School remains in the Waterloo Road building under Sr Ann Lewandoski.
• 1961 : Sr Miriam Xavier replaces Sr Ann Lewandoski as Primary Principal.
• 1975 : Golden Anniversary of Maryknoll Convent School.
• Jan 1995 : The Jockey Club Wing of the Secondary Section is opened.
• Feb. 1998 : The Jockey Club Wing of the Primary Section is opened.
• 2000 : 75 th Anniversary of Maryknoll Convent School
• 2005 : 80th Anniversary of Maryknoll Convent School
• Feb. 2005 : The Rogers Annex of the Secondary Section is opened.

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