Responding to the night sketch challenge by @wahayeahsketchgroup at the Yau Ma Tei wholesale fruit market. To prepare for this challenge, I did a site walk in the morning looking for interesting sketching locations and came across this historic facade at the corner of Reclamation and Waterloo streets. The morning light was beautiful, and so I decided to sketch it 12 hours before the actual event! I spent about an hour capturing the fruit stalls and morning shoppers, then went on to do my Saturday errands. After dinner, I went back to join the night sketch event. Little did I know that the most exciting things happen towards midnight, when the whole street was buzzing with cargos of fruit being offloaded and delivered to the stalls. The walls of fruit boxes literally stopped traffic and workers were whizzing around in their forklift trucks. As I looked for a safe spot to sketch from, I stumbled on this scene where a pile of discarded cardboard boxes were being flattened and strapped to a trolley by this old lady. She’s probably making a few quick bucks by selling the cardboard to recyclers. The same building was in the background but in a slightly different angle. As I proceeded with the sketch, I realised how fast she was working and the mound of boxes soon disappeared to a flattened heap. It felt like a race and I could barely keep up! After about an hour or so, both the lorry at the background and the lady had left. I had two drawings to take away and had to take a taxi home at 2am. #daysketch #nightsketch #urbansketch #nightatthemarket #yaumatei #yaumateifruitmarket #usk #uskhongkong #uskhk #sketchbookart #discoverhongkong #sketcher_ben

Sky’s the Limit: Photo 6 – Lyantonde, Uganda – Day 190: I was separated from my passport for 40 days and while waiting for my passport to be returned to me in Uganda, I bartered my room and board with a family that owned a handful of hotels across the country. On the way from one hotel in Lyantonde to another one in Mbarara, I strapped my GoPro to the front bumper of the maintenance man’s truck. As the staff at the Skyblue Motel gathered around, I explained that it was recording us. 📖 Excerpt from Sky’s the Limit (link in bio): Now that I’ve got my travel visa, I can leave for Kenya tomorrow, make a quick pit stop in Kisumu for the night, and then go on to Nairobi the next day. From there, I’ll travel north to the Ethiopian border town of Moyale. Looking forward to finally being able to make progress, I open my laptop to catch up on the news. That’s when I see the headline. No. Please, God, no. I lean closer to the screen. Gunmen stormed Garissa University College in Kenya early this morning and killed 148 people. I click on the article. Al Shabaab rounded up seven hundred students from the university’s dormitories and then executed all the Christians. I’m numb. I take a deep breath to brace myself before I can keep reading. Collins Wetangula, the vice chairman of the student union, said that when the gunmen arrived at his dormitory, he could hear them opening doors and asking the people who had hidden inside whether they were Muslims or Christians. “If you were Christian, you were shot on the spot. With each blast of the gun, I thought I was going to die.” He said that when he heard the gunshots, he locked himself and three roommates in their room. “All I could hear were footsteps and gunshots—nobody was screaming because they thought this would lead the gunmen to know where they are,” he said. “The next thing, we saw people in military uniform through the window of the back of our rooms who identified themselves as the Kenyan military,” Wetangula said. The soldiers took him and around twenty others to safety. “We started running and bullets were whizzing past our heads and the soldiers told us to dive,” Wetangula said....

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