Is this the best Hong Kong fog photo taken this year?
SCMP photographer Bruce Yan captured these monsoonal wonders
The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.
Hong Kong had been shrouded in fog but at night, this only makes the glow of its thousands of lights shine extra moodily.
It was an expected moment, at about 6pm nearly 20 photographers swarmed the Victoria Peak perch where they know they can get the best view of the city’s skyscrapers.
SCMP photographer Bruce said that by 7pm, the fog had cleared.
“People complained to friends on the phone ‘no need to come here, all gone’,” he said.
To make things even more dispiriting, at 6.35pm the view was a total white-out – but Yan persevered.
“Always stick around,” he added.
The fog has lingered over the city for weeks, and the ever-present lights were just waiting for their moment in the frame.
“Shutter sound is everywhere at the two best photography spots on the Peak – ICC, The Centre and Two IFC become the only three skyscrapers visible through the fog,” Yan said.
The humid maritime airstream caused low visibility on late in the month, before the clouds were swept away by a dry continental air mass on March 25, the Hong Kong Observatory said on its website.
Always keeping an eye on the HKO app, Yan could see the fog clouds building up throughout the day and took his chance.
“I just thought there was a potential for photos so I went up,” he said.
