This picture was taken with a Pentax SF1 camera during a one month trip in the area of Hong-Kong. Other pictures relating to this 1990 Asian trip are available in my photo gallery sections under the title “Asia”.
The period when this picture of the Chinese junks in Tai Po was captured corresponds exactly to one year after the 1989 Tiananmen Square events. The South China Morning Post had written that about 100,000 persons had marched to commemorate the tragedy. I could even see the crowd from my seat in the Cathay Pacific Boeing 747-200 when we overflew Hong Kong for the final approach towards the Kaï Tak airport.
I used some time to travel on the South China sea and when our ferry started to navigate between islands, I saw those beautiful wooden junks and captured the scene.
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