Some Pictures of people we met in Summer 2007

These 30 photographs were taken in Summer of 2007 during our visit to Asia. Clicking on images will open a new window (unless your browser blocks new windows) displaying the original image. Some of the original images are of immense size (a few megabytes each).

There is another page of pictures of people we met (fifth of seven from Asia in 2007), and a page with links to several more pages of images from the summer of 2007. You can also go back to the third page from Summer 2007.
Tokyo outdoor concert Bluema Recorder The band Bluema Recorder performing in a little tent.
This is the Japanese band Bluema Recorder, who were playing at a free concert in Tokyo. Bluema Recorder was impressive. They reminded me of the Minutemen and Fishbone and Built to Spill yet they didn't sound too much like those bands. The funny thing was, this outdoor concert was part of a festival with three big stages and Bluema Recorder was performing in this tiny little tent like you see in the image above.
Chiayi Breakfast Banana Morning The cook who prepared my breakfast several mornings.
Several mornings while I was living in Chiayi during the summer of 2007 I would stop and have breakfast at a place where I think these two were the owners. The proprietress of Banana Breakfast on Min-Hsiung Road in Chiayi with a fellow I guess is her husband. I would usually eat a sandwich with eggs and vegetables for breakfast. This is the cook at Banana Breakfast who prepared my sandwiches on several occasions.
Chiayi Breakfast Banana Morning The cook who prepared my breakfast several mornings.
On the early morning of July 21st Sebastian and I took a bus to Central where we went to Prince's Building to pick up a book. At Book-Zine there was a little party for children at 7:00 a.m. Several of the children looked very much like characters from the Harry Potter stories. The staff were dressed for the occasion as well. In the three photographs on this row you can see Sebastian with a bookseller dressed as a witch.
Excitement as Harry Potter Book is released. The early morning release of Harry Potter Book Seven Books and Magazines in Central, Hong Kong
Here a television camera focuses on Sebastian. Sebastian was the third person in line to get Deathly Hallows. The staff person was checking the list to note who had picked up a book, as many of the early morning customers (like us) and pre-paid to reserve a book. Several of the Harry Potter fans sat down and began reading the book just after they received it.
Cinderford T-Shirts Caritas - Hong Kong
Here in on the first floor of Mirador Mansion I purchased some Chinese style shirts at Cinderford. This is the proprietress and her nephew, who was visiting from the UK. Here is Sebastian with a T-shirt he bought at the 15th annual symposium of the International Consortium for Social Development. At the ICSD symposium there were venders selling handicrafts made by clients of various social service agencies. Here is the Caritas booth (I've blurred two clients for their privacy).
Student at HK Polytechnic Student at HK Polytechnic Student at HK Polytechnic
First of three photographs taken in the Hong Kong Polytechnic of one of the student volunteers I met at the Symposium. Second picture of this student volunteer who had an interest in social work. Third photograph of the volunteer.
Student at HK Polytechnic Student at HK Polytechnic Student at HK Polytechnic
Student volunteers in the canteen. The student volunteers were very helpful. The student volunteers.
Student at HK Polytechnic Student at HK Polytechnic Student at HK Polytechnic
After the ICSD conference a few of us took tours of the Polytechnic campus. These were the student volunteer guides in my group. The student volunteers could be seen all over campus with their distinctive green T-shirts. I think they were popular with the scholars. Student volunteers.
Student at HK Polytechnic Student at HK Polytechnic Student at HK Polytechnic
I met this idealistic and brilliant young social work student from Bei-Da. She asked a good question of the speaker, Sibin Wang. The distinguished crowd waiting to hear the Dan Sanders Memorial Lecture. Volunteers welcoming guests who are coming to hear about Hong Kong Polytechnic University and applied social sciences.
Student at HK Polytechnic Student at HK Polytechnic Student at HK Polytechnic
Here is one of the greatest influences on my own intellectual development, my mentor, Larry Davis. I don't know the handsome fellow smiling at me as I took the photograph, but that tall fellow looking at a book is Christan Aspalter. Mary Rogge, Nikku Balaraju, Sebastian and Eric Hadley-Ives, and Julie Miller-Cribbs hanging around after the Dan Sanders Lecture.

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By Eric Hadley-Ives