Now a leap of about 10 000 kilometers. Why Hong Kong ? It is in total contrast with Edinborough. Where the Scottish town spread itself horizontally in a greenish landscape, with rows of old stone houses, Hong Kong is mostly vertical and bathed in a hazy light. Modern high rises, narrow streets on a tiny island. I mainly shoot horizontal pictures, I have become lazy with my wrist. In fact I am not keen of vertical photographs, except for portraiture so my natural inclination is to keep the camera straight.The invention of the 35mm camera in the late 1910s created the 2 by 3 ratio format. I have become so used to it that I now see the world in this kind of a mind frame and I seem to be trapped in it. Here I probably wanted to Include the verticality of Hong Kong in the available horizontal rectangle. Hence the black and white poster, the two characters and the inevitable sky scrapers…