Using a Canon 5D2, Francis So spent 5 months creating a remarkable time-lapse video highlighting a different side of Hong Kong…
Responding to news of a legislator’s suggestion to build housing developments within country parks, Francis said “I cannot think of anything to say, except to make a video about Hong Kong’s country parks, to show the innate beauty to the general public… I just wish that this video can arouse all your attention, to take action and to conserve our country parks for the sake of our next generation.”
The places featured in the video include: Lugard Road, Po Toi Island, Shek O Country Park, Cape D’Aguilar Marine Reserve, Tai Mo Shan Country Park, Sai Kung East Country Park and Lantau North Country Park.
Our city is 60% protected countryside – the highest proportion of any state.
Find more of Francis’s work on Facebook or YouTube.
Click here for 8 more time-lapse videos. Photos below from HangGrafitti:
External video links and original clips relating to HK…
- 20-minutes ‘Sleeping Dogs’ Police Chase Ends in Arrest.
- Artist’s Virtual Pop-Up Tour of HK.
- Euphoric English Advert for HK’s Noah’s Ark.
- Extreme Urban Sports Videos in HK.
- HK International Pillow Fight Day Compilation 2011.
- HK International Pillow Fight Day Compilation 2012.
- HK International Pillow Fight Day Compilation 2013.
- HK’s Most Quaint & Delightful Public Service Ads from the 80s.
- Hollywood Destroys the Bank of China Building.
- Hong Kong Ephemeral (Kowloon Hong Kong by The Reynettes.
- Hong Kong Hyperlapse 2013.
- Hong Kong SantaCon 2012.
- Hong Kong’s Weirdest Public Service Ads.
- Interview with the Only Resident of Kuk Po Ghost Village.
- Life of a Hong Kong Tai Tai.
- Louis Vuitton’s Pretentious Corporate Claptrap.
- Maid Wars: The Plight of HK’s Domestic Workers.
- National Geographic’s 1978 HK Family Profile.
- No Room at the Cemetery? Turn Loved Ones Into Jewellery!
- Press Video Coverage of HK’s Third Pillow Fight Day.
- Six Spectacular Hong Kong Time Lapse Videos.
- Snowden Hong Kong: The Movie.
- The Birth of the MTR (Documentary).
- The Ecology & Politics of Tung Ping Chau.
- The Plight of Tin Shui Wai’s Hawkers in the ‘City of Despair’.
- The Prostitute-Busting Policewomen of 1960s Hong Kong.
- The Tiny HK Apartment With 24 Rooms in 1.
- Time-Lapse of Hong Kong by Edwin Lee.
- Video Goes Viral As Woman Arrested for Slapping Kneeling Boyfriend.
Click here for a collection of Hong Kong desktop wallpapers. You may also enjoy…
- A Hong Kong Bug’s Life: Barry Jacques’s HK Insect Safari.
- Aerial Shots of HK’s Coffin Homes, by Ko Chung Ming.
- An American Warship in Hong Kong.
- Beautifully Animated Hong Kong Cinemagraphs.
- Before and After Photos of Old & New Hong Kong.
- Cages, Hookers, Tattoos: HK’s Grim Underbelly.
- Colourful HK: More Amazing Shots by Romain Jacquet-Lagreze.
- Cool Photos of Hong Kong in Miniature.
- Domestic Helpers: Why Do You Do What You Do?
- Dreamseekers: Photographer Reveals Helper’s Journeys from Indonesia to HK.
- Dreamy Infra-red Shots of Hong Kong.
- Elite: Michael Chan’s Commentary on Education & Poverty.
- Fan Ho, Part I: HK’s Boom Years.
- Fan Ho, Part II: Street Scenes in Dreamy Colour 1954-2004.
- Food Choices on the Hong Kong Poverty Line.
- Glitch the Matrix: Old & New Hong Kong Blended Together.
- Grainne Quinlan’s Stunning Portraits of HK’s Helper Community.
- Grit, Grime and Crime: KC Kwan’s Hong Kong.
- HangGraffiti’s Unexpected Hong Kong.
- Harold de Puymorin’s Surreal HK ‘Inception’ Series.
- HK’s ‘Gloomy Summer’ by Akif Hakan Celebi.
- Hedda Morrison’s Hong Kong: Photos from 1942, Beautifully Restored
- Home Street Home: Homelessness in HK by Lei Jih-sheng.
- Hong Kong Above the Clouds.
- Hong Kong in the Rain By Christophe Jacrot.
- Hong Kong Through a Crystal Ball.
- Hong Kong Through the Eyes of NatGeo’s Mark Leong.
- Hong Kong’s Elderly Tai Chi Enthusiasts.
- Hong Kong’s Invisible Caged Poor: Mini Sculptures by Kwong Chi Kit.
- Honkey Kong: HK Photographed as a 2-D Platform Game.
- Igor Sinitsin’s Surreal Take on High Density Hong Kong.
- Jeff Tam’s HDR & Street Photography.
- Joel Odesser’s Hong Kong: ‘Behind the Scenes’.
- Little Planet Hong Kong: A New Perspective.
- Lonely Metropolis: More Colourful Shots by Brian Yen.
- Michael Wolf’s ‘Architecture of Density’.
- Michael Wolf’s ‘Window Watching’ Invasive or Curious?
- Michael Wolf’s 100 Photos of 100 Rooms of 100sq ft.
- Michael Wolf’s Hong Kong Cornerhouses.
- Neon Pink and Blue – Thomas Birke’s HK Shots.
- One Year in Hong Kong by Brian Yen.
- Photographs of Hong Kong’s Rooftop Slums.
- Pictures of Hong Kong in 1972.
- Poverty & Property: The Claustrophobic Reality of HK Shoeboxes.
- Poverty, Age & Loneliness in HK: by Brian Yen.
- Rare Shots from Inside the Old Kowloon Walled City.
- Sean Creamer’s Hong Kong.
- Spooky MTR Levitation Photography.
- Superheroes Working in Hong Kong.
- The Part of Hong Kong Foreigners Never See, by Joanathan Van Smit’.
- The Peak Tram in 1908 & More Unseen Vintage Photos.
- Tom Carter’s China: Exclusive Shots of HK & Macau.
- Vertical Horizon: Amazing Photos HK Skyscrapers.
- Vintage Photos of Old Hong Kong.
- World Press Photo 2012 at the HK Design Institute.
Places to see off-the-beaten-track and attractions to visit across the city…
- Beautiful Bride’s Pool Waterfalls.
- Causeway Bay’s Cat Cafe.
- Escape Hong Kong at ‘Freeing HK’, Mongkok.
- Exploring the Abandoned ‘Haunted’ TV Studios in Ho Chung.
- Fung Hang Abandoned Village.
- HK’s Best Beach, Tai Long Wan (Big Wave Bay), Sai Kung.
- HK’s Wild South West: Shek Pik to Tai O.
- Hong Kong’s Abandoned ‘Ghost Island’, Yim Tin Tsai.
- How to See Fireflies in Hong Kong.
- Kuk Po Abandoned Village.
- Lion Rock & Beacon Hill.
- Mongkok’s Japanese Maid Cafe.
- Motocross Dirt Biking in Sheung Shui.
- Official Map of Hong Kong Island’s New Hos.
- Peng Chau: HK’s Least Loved Island?
- Shing Mun Redoubt, HK’s Secret WWII Tunnels.
- Sunrise on Hong Kong’s Farthest Flung & Wildest Island.
- Tap Mun (Grass Island).
- The Cattle Depot Artist Village.
- The Hakka Walled Village of Tsang Tai Uk, Sha Tin.