On a very misty wintery Friday, 4 August 2017 Auckland-New Zealand, the wintery night skies was frozen clear, in which was frozen clear still on that night till the wintery mist came along…The Planet Jupiter in which is settling down very early west wise towards the Waitakere’s Piha Beach direction. Throughout in the winter season as the season progressives settling down early…. In which the planet Jupiter is in the night sky is located in the Bodice of the Constellation of Virgo… At that time the four main large Galilean Moons Io, Europa, Castillo, Ganymede… Was located in one side of the of the averagely 800 million Kilometres away from Earth… in which given that you’re texting your girl-boyfriend it’ll take least averagely 40 minutes for the text messaging to be send.. Yes the Speed of light in space is Dial Up in space…. So you can imagine missing out watch streaming…. And you think its broadband…
During the night, on the westward wise in which in winter constellation it’s the Scorpio also Sagittarius with the wintery moon as it progressive towards the full moon…
At one time in Auckland History, a Township naming Mangere Bridge, located in the Manukau Harbour, Used to be a major suburban hub that interconnects between Mangere Bridge to the Onehunga, in which that township was busy in up to the mid 1980’s as the final construction of the new constructed Managere Bridge that became operational in 1983…. In which took ten years to build, to replace the previous one in which still stands today….as a recreational park, part of the Community, in where people now days used it to walk to work, school.. Recreationally fish from the Harbour, with as part of Auckland’s bicycle peddling network also is a resting spot for resting..
Before 1983, the old Mangere Bridge constructed in 1914, it was widely used to the point where bridge up to moment in 1980’s it was beyond saturation point more than Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong’s old Kai Tak International Airport in Kowloon Bay As the its replacement was still finalized in construction after a ten year stall after stall in construction due to labor disputes.. Back then driving on the old bridge in which Coronation road that lead up into the Mangere Bridge Township was intense intensified as the new bridge waits… With one of the known traffic also it was one of the known roadways that link up travelling in from Auckland CBD towards Onehunga towards Mangere Bridge Township towards the Jean Batten international Airport- Auckland international Airport…
The Mangere Bridge Township Village Going through a revitalization thriving in its own right..
The Place has a strong sense of history.. one concerning of Mangere Mountain in which used to be a Maori Pa site where one was fortified……
bike riding is the now replacement of the Old Bridge in which previously serving the heavy automobiles that once saturated it’s tarmac roads..
this Coronation Road was once a vital road that connected to Onehunga towards the Auckland Central , it restfully enjoys a humble pace of life…..
The Old Bridge restored, modified to its humble retirement in which that retirement is recreational with local fishing in the comunity…
The Old Bridge was a revolutionary in it’s concrete construction in which it was stronger build in 1914…
Onehunga Wharf in it’s previous years of early last century this Wharf used to be alot busier in carrying alot freight.. It still does, but with Fish Mongers Fishing Trawlers making out in early hours in the morning to catch early catch.. as to this used to be a ferrying point to get around to the Auckland Central..
recreational fishing of the Old Mangere Bridge..
Most of the Township still have it;s soul in which you can see it soul through the character also this place has the best pie ( Hong Kong Bakery) in Auckland….
The old Mangere Bridge in which still stands today in which constructed during wartime 1914 in World War one and two, was design to be a wartime bridge the way how it was layout and design was to have elements of being Anti-Tank block, with some sentry towers… as a procedure the harbour also the bridge was mined for just in case.. Interesting enough the bridge itself was designed lowered as to counter any larger wartime or patrol boats from entry the mouth of the harbour…
bike riding is the now replacement of the Old Bridge in which previously serving the heavy automobiles that once saturated it’s tarmac roads..
During those times when the old Mangere Bridge was active, traffic thoroughfare through the Mangere Bridge Township was a lot more intensified than as now today… as now days the traffic is no longer through the main street of the village as it’s completely diverted through Auckland’s South-western Motorway –SH20.. As the large component of traffic is diverted the township has recently enjoyed its now provincial humbling as its thriving growing local community…..
Hong Kong Central -中環- is located in the very center of Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong.. in which is more boarded into the western District of Hong Kong Island.. it is greatly opposite to the Central business area of Tsim Sha Tsui across the Victoria Harbour- in its previous name of the district was formerly named Victoria City that naming of Central hasn’t been used, or it’s been rarely utilized for name..
Within the Central, it’s one of the many cores cities that within Hong Kong Region.. as existing today is still the main focus area for international First Class for Multi Nationals finances – technologies Corporations- also the many countries consulates also a massive networks of arrays of Malls every level to be located within that district… Central’s landscape is like the in Mainland China’s Grand Canyon in the Hubei Province in where organically through time the Hubei’s Canyon landscape carved out by wind ice into towering mountains landscape like in throughout Hong Kong Landscape in which is replaced with the Concrete, metal steel glass towering buildings within a tropical forest that surrounds Hong Kong Also the mountainous areas of New Territories…….
The Hong Kong Central landscape is like the China’s Grand Canyon in the Hubei Province……..
Tamar Park Admiralty- looking back at the city landscape with the towering mountains like inorganically grown everso changing landscape..
in the background is the IFC building with the only building in Hong Kong the Hong Kong Shanghai Bank in which still can be relocated if needed..
when you look at the Hong Kong Centrals landscape you can see the layers of history that’s taken place with intensive construction as each level …..
canyons of towering mountains with ever changing oriental skyline..
canyons of towering mountains with ever changing oriental night time lantern skyline..
In the backdrop is the iconic design the HSBC – Hong Kong Shanghai Bank also the second tallest building in Hong Kong the IFC building tower -412 meters tall..
Walking towards heading towards the Victoria Peak Tram to Garden Road.. in which is around the corner..
Looking at the back drop is the HSBC- Hong Kong Shanghai Bank.. walking past Garden Road in Central looking at St. Johns Cathedral..
Looking back at gorgeous times views New Territories Hong Kong towards Tsim Sha Tsui Kowloon Photographer Kevin James Ng for KevinJamesNg.com月LunaCrescent.com
The HSBC Hong Kong Shanghai Bank is one of the most Iconic innovative buildings that’s design like the with Traditional Chinese building designs… that design is to it allows the building to be relocated like the Forbidden City. or any Traditional Chinese building.. .
Central in Hong Kong, is also was developed by the People of Hong Kong, also from the day from the day of British arrived developing Central on Kowloon Peninsula in which Central could be knowingly extended outwardly towards Sheung Wan, Aberdeen Street –Wing Kut Street with Admiralty.. After 1997 during the handover the People of Hong Kong made the region stronger with long term planning in which Hong Kong Has gone through strength to strength more. As that strength in long term planning translated in the succession of continuous buildings- construction developments that played turn Hong Kong region’s building towering landscape that it’ll always keeping itself already always in tomorrow…
When I look at every individual building, also every single street in Hong Kong, this case in Central each of its own has its own story to tell, in which its individual design has lot of to say about its functionally how it reacts to the street environment organically, in which that organically component is Feng Shui- wind- water.. Also within that Feng Shui component each building is design according to street layout in which given way of giving them more flow of good energy in some cases like other designs try to absorb that good energy also deflect negative energy… in which the street way orientated to that manner in which that…every street town planning has a it’s Feng Shui elements..
canyons of towering mountains with ever changing oriental night time lantern skyline..
Changes towards the night its view is always constantly changing throughout from the morning towards the later in the night with its neonic towering city landscape, the Symphony of Lights which begins at 2000 Hours Hong Kong Time every night… in which it lights up from Wan Chi towards the Central, in which most of the building neonic with a symphony light show in between Tsim Sha Tsui……
On a very Mildly frosty night on a frosty night of 18th July 2017… it was a clear slightly wintery humid cold night in which it was slightly warmer than the previous week nights in which it has been extremely crispy silky cold due to southern the polar Antarctica blast that encompassed New Zealand, also a very wet week.. Also cold Antarctica Auckland …. During this week’s night sky the planet Summery Wintery Planet still resides in the bodice of constellation Virgo the Virgin looking at an average of 800 Million Kilometres also averagely Forty minutes light minutes ago back in time… in which setting down early as it is during the Auckland Night sky… As the night sky progresses in which there was the Jupiter Galilean moons Io and Europa in which Europa was coming out from an Occultation coming out from behind in which, the moon Io is was in transiting progressively hours to the night in which travelling across eclipsing it shadow on to Jupiter atmospheric surface then onwards to the the other side..
CANTON ROAD sits in between next to Kowloon Park Drive also next to Kowloon Park in the Tsim Sha Tsui Area in which is a which is a major Roading network that interconnects with the reclamation land of West Kowloon, of Tsim Sha Tsui, Jordan, Yau Ma Tei Also Mong Kok on the Kowloon area of Hong Kong -New Territories …..
Walking pass the bridge every morning for the duration, also for the duration more, for that the bridge along the Gateway road in away fromKowloon park in which that connects from Austin road.. Formerly named the MacDonnell Road after there was a massive slight confusion with another road already named on Hong Kong Island… In which renamed on 1909 to Canton Road to align with some city, province names in Mainland China to avoided any other further confusion down the process.. …
Canton road is one of the many iconic roads in Hong Kong in which it’well developed as with great view sliver the busting life of Hong Kong..
as the sunset on Canton Road there’s still life breathing below in keeping the city alive with untold stories unfolding..
As sunset begins it warms up the Hong Kong Street once more till in the Sunrise the next morning.. with it jade yellow hues..
Among with a great road , is also the view in the background is the Hong Kong Culture Center one of many iconic Hong Kong theater buildings
there was one TVB televsion series in which the spot where I’m standing it was the many locations used for a Lawyer premise Television series ” Law and Disorder”
Among the stores is the Apple store that Canton Road store is one of sixth stores that’s located around Hong Kong..
As evening fall to night Canton Road takes on a different life with the essences of life of the day working as people working hard later in the night with passion in their work..
Looking down the Southern Tsim Sha Tsui Part of Canton road as walking to and from China Ferry Terminal building in which is situated at 33 Canton Road… you can see abundances of life that are within the Malls, shops, hotels, commercial also apartment complexes with life throughout the day onwards to night of various sorts of sizes that during as I walked midway on that pedestrian Bridge during the day also night looking down wards towards Tsim Sha Tsui towards the Hong Kong Culture Center across the Victoria Harbour towards Hong Kong Island… in commonly looking at the Wan Chai Central Plaza…..
As evening fall to night Canton Road takes on a different life with the essences of life of the day working as people working hard later in the night with passion in their work..
Walking midway of the Pedestrian Bridge in which was a location shot for few Hong Kong TVB Television series “Law and Disorder’ a interesting Lawyer premise series with interesting office politics also the family whom founded it… I could see the whole section in various part of Canton Road downward where there an Apple Store… In which there are six places around in Hong Kong… Canton Road happens to be one of smaller ones compare to the IFC Building one in Central on Hong Kong Island… among this road it was used early this year for the Chinese New Year events in which Cathy Pacificsponsored in having an after parade party… but the interesting view is seeing feeling the history how that section of road was develop over the few past hundreds years also I could stand and watch the people below as the daily stories unfold on either side of the bridge with the traffic moment of people going along their daily business with the transportation that’s along the ….
Even though looking at the buildings that are recently new there is some interesting heritage building complexes that had an incarnation of life to them with a different servicing of needs… in which walking down on Canton road is totally walkable downwards the Hong Kong Culture Center…with timeless views that I can never forget
