I loved Hong Kong. This shot is looking down Hollywood Road on the way to the fabulous store G.O.D. (Goods of Desire). I found it to be a great walking city.
The oppression of high fashion and the tyranny of choice* associated with retail in the west is ever present in Hong Kong.
Having come from socialist West Bengal in Calcutta, where fly-overs (raised highways) obscure the beautiful facade of their national museum, it was interesting to see this moment where the right of way was given to a tree. This in Hong Kong, one of the world's most free market economies in its day.
Signs of the former British rule are felt in a general, somewhat intangible way; and sometimes posted more directly.
* I credit this phrase to Samuel, MBA
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