Monochrome and What Sport Do You Like? (This week's Photo Hunt themes)

For the longest time, when asked "What sport do you like (best)?", my answer would be association football (AKA soccer to American English speakers).  But while I still regularly watch it -- albeit on 'live' on TV or via "livestream" video, rather than live, since my favorite football club (still, after all these sometimes frustrating years...) have their home in North London -- I haven't played it since I left Philadelphia way back in the summer of 2003.

After returning to Penang, my sport of choice to play for a time was tennis.  But my getting a frozen shoulder put paid to my tennis playing days.  So I had to find another exercise activity -- and did so in hiking, an activity and sport that I had occasionally done when I lived in the US and Britain (and also Tanzania) but really only began pursuing in earnest after moving to Hong Kong.

As regular visitors to this blog know, I not only hike a lot but also take a lot of photos when out on Hong Kong's many hiking trails.  Even so, I was surprised to find how large was the number of hike photos in my archive that looked suitable for this week's Photo Hunt themes chosen by Sandi as well as Gattina -- and in many different monochromatic hues too!

In the end, I've restricted myself to just offering up three natural monochrome photos: with the largely gray one being a landscape image that includes a sighting of the iconic Lion Rock; the green image being a close-up shot of interesting, well, greenery; and the final photo being of a brown grasshopper in a largely brown setting. :)