Impressions, Expressions｜Hong Kong Native Plant Photo Contest Exhibition::Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden

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Impressions, Expressions｜Hong Kong Native Plant Photo Contest Exhibition

Hosted by Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden (KFBG), The ‘Impressions, Expressions｜Hong Kong Native Plant Photo Contest’ serves as a prelude to the botanical art exhibition ‘Impressions, Expressions – feeling & depicting nature’. Beyond celebrating the beauty of Hong Kong’s precious native plants, the event aims to raise public awareness and appreciation for local biodiversity while highlighting the KFBG’s vital conservation work.

The photo contest registration closed on 16 August 2025, and we are grateful for the enthusiastic public participation, which has demonstrated the natural beauty and ecological value of Hong Kong's native plants through inspiring nature photography. The winning works are currently on display at KFBG's covered plaza, and we warmly invite the public to view these pieces closely during their visit and draw insight and inspiration from them.

Impressions, Expressions｜Hong Kong Native Plant Photo Contest Exhibition
Date: 12 October - 31 December, 2025
Time: 9:30am - 4:30pm
Venue: Covered plaza, KFBG
*Photo titles and captions provided by awardees are only available in Traditional Chinese.

Gold Award

Participant: Chan Wang Leong
Photo Title: 菰蜂自賞
Plant: Hong Kong Balanophora

每逢十二月，青山某處林蔭下的啡色泥土間，總會悄然冒出一片片橙色的香港蛇菰，奪目非常。我遠遠望見，一隻黑盾胡蜂在花菰間盤旋，似被鮮豔色澤或蜜露吸引。牠孤蜂自賞，而我則舉起相機，定格了這一刻——「菰蜂自賞」。

© Chan Wang Leong/Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden

This photo captures the quintessential beauty features of Hong Kong’s countryside: orchids, stream/waterfall and forest. The composition of these three elements provides a wonderful setting for the orange orchid flowers and brings out their natural beauty.

– Judging Panel, Wander Meijier, Executive Director, KFBG

A truly splendid, richly coloured depiction of a very unusual plant interacting with a surprising visitor. My mind boggles at how difficult it must have been to get this shot – the clamber to the habitat, the technical set-up, the lighting and the patience – all executed with perfect timing and precision. From the crisp shades of orange that bring the stippled surface of the female inflorescence into sharp focus, to the delicate powdery pollen on the male flowers, the viewer is brought down to the scale of the soil and leaf litter, as if these plants are towering alien forms. The inquisitive wasp, adding yellow to the picture's warm palette, makes this a very real glimpse into the ecology of this dweller of the forest floor.

– Judging Panel, Dr Stephan W. Gale, Head of Flora Conservation Department

Silver Award

Participant: Ho Pak Kei
Photo Title: 風之子
Plant: Long-hairy Clematis

很多借助風力傳播種子的植物，其種子都有像棉花的結構。這種香港原生植物絲鐵線蓮也不例外，它的種子的結構很特別。

© Ho Pak Kei/Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden

A supremely balanced shot that blends softness and sharpness right down to individual, wispy hairs. The viewer's focus is immediately drawn to the bold head of Clematis seeds, neatly positioned left of centre, but as the eye takes in the rest of the image, one cannot help but be mesmerised by the delicate tails of each seed, as if calligraphy in a Chinese ink painting. The depth of field is generous enough to enable these microscopic details to be shown with clarity, but the image in its entirety is bathed in lovely ethereal light, grading from greens and browns at top-left to white on the right, making this a gentle and absorbing piece of ecological art.

– Judging Panel, Dr Stephan W. Gale, Head of Flora Conservation Department