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Escape to Hong Kong – a tram ride

ByGarf created2004-01-02 23:592025-02-06 17:22 updated2025-02-06 17:22 Digital pictures, Hong Kong, Journal, Photography, Travelogue

I rode the tram, literally from one end of Hong Kong island to the other, taking a photo every few seconds.

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Drunken bumblebees in our garden…
ByGarf 2017-07-302025-02-06

Drunken bumblebees working the lavender in our garden. Seems Bumblebees have longer tongues than ordinary worker bees and can reach to the bottom of the lavender flowers in order to get to the nectar. Moreover nectar can ferment, when mixed with rainfall and natural yeast. Consequently these incredible little creatures can become quite tipsy, especially…

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Covid 19 “Honest Government Ad”
ByGarf 2020-03-212025-02-06

They say “many a true word spoken in jest“. This seems particularly applicable to this short “honest government” video produced by Australia’s JuiceMedia… Background to the video JuiceMedia’s “Honest Government Ad” started life as satire. But its probably the most truthful representation where we are right now with COVID-19. This associated video podcast explains its…

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Hong Kong with a new digital camera, part 1
ByGarf 1998-12-302025-02-06

I found myself in Hong Kong in Christmas 1998, and decided to treat myself to a new camera. My first half-decent digital, an Olympus C1400L. These are some of its results…

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“This Is Hans in Ungarn, from Pécs, Hungary…”
ByGarf 2014-01-102025-11-08

“…playing his favourite music, I hope you like it.”

These are the first words you will hear when you connect to the internet radio stream of Radio Pécs International. And I recently had the pleasure of meeting the man behind the show, Hans Randau. His station is located in a small basement room in his lovely home, which overlooks Pécs, a Mediterranean style town about 200km south of the Hungarian capital, Budapest.

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Welsh Rally
ByGarf 2006-12-012025-02-06

A trip to photograph the Welsh Rally courtesy of Duncan Woods at Taran Microsystems.

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Hungarian rebels against the “Microsoft Tax”
ByGarf 2008-01-102025-02-06

[Reproduced from DEOSS ] Seems that Micro$haft’s corporate enslavement permeates far beyond the English-speaking world. A long and complex legal battle is currently raging in the former Eastern Bloc state of Hungary. APEH (the Hungarian Tax Office) has decided that all Hungarian businesses now have to submit their tax returns on-line. This would not be…

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