Trip to Tai O
Today we took another trip to Tai O on Lantau – the strange village on stilts.
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Checking out my new lens tilt mechanism
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Portsmouth from Portsdown Hill
Testing out my new old MTO 1000mm lens that I recently found cheap on eBay… You can find out more about the massive MTO 1000mm that I used to take these shots, here.
