Category Archives: Photo essay

Traipsing through Puli

Little Puli-lovely town in a beautiful mountain valley. It was through some rough times back before the turn of the millennium with the major 921 earthquake. Like getting there when I can. Taking a tour through the ShaoShing wine factory is always fun. They have lots of information on the distillery processes and even a [...]

Baseball and other images

Currently I’m sitting here with my trusted Xacti out of commission and traveling in it’s home country of Japan-local company I deal with sent it back for some warranty work. It decided to stop letting me use view finder…ack…tragedy. Good news is I took some shots before that happened and they are below.
 
This spot is [...]

Some recent photos

 
Yesterday I took my family into town for some shopping. We decided to get a little fresh air and exercise in the Taichung Ampitheater park. This little guy looked like he was having some fun and caught my eye.
 
A worker on the park construction project.
 
Kevin and Anne about to cross the bridge.
 
Workmen busy  building amphitheater [...]

Taichung Jazz Festival

At some point the city fathers decided they wanted Taichung to be the “cultural center” of Taiwan as well as the geographic center. Part of this resulted in the now annual Jazz Festival that takes place here in October. I attended the first night at People’s Square with my son Kevin. We stayed for the [...]

What I’ve been looking at…

Here are some of the images I’ve taken recently on walks and jaunts around Taichung-central Taiwan.
 
Just loved this “buddha” outing. Several on the truck in the beautiful morning light.
 
Diligently tidying up for 10/10 Taiwan national hioliday.
  
Fishing on the holiday-good way to chill and pass time.
 
Lanterns in a row-the temple was visibkle from far end of stream. [...]

More shadows and light

This offering will be a little more eclectic than usual…or maybe not.
 
This bowl of roosters was spotted down on a recent trip to ChienKuo Market for some things. Fresh doesn’t get any fresher….
 
The pattern that leaves make is one of my favorites.
 
Took this shot during break from father and son football toss in nearby park.
 
This [...]

Through the lens

Lately I have been shooting a variety of different subjects in and around town on errands and photo walks. Hope you like some of them.

One of the buildings at Taichung’s China Medical Center. Shot while waiting for my appointment for a check up there. This is one of the largest teaching hospitals in Taiwan and [...]

Saturday photo hunt

These shots were taken on a recnt Saturday photo hunt-mainly at local Minshu Folk Park and Beiping Afternoon Market.

Thought this was a great sky and would show well in minimal B/W.

Statue in front of Minshu Folk Park. Not sure what he is portraying but looks ok I think.

Young father taking his little boy out for [...]

Sometimes Black and White…

Recently I’ve come to realize that black and white have there place in the digital image space. So I’ve now begun to produce some of my pictures in black and white. Included in this selection and from here on I’ll probably have regular offerings of B&W photos.

Nothing as minimal as antenna making lines against the [...]

Vanished…

Odd how these 2 pics came together on same day. The empty shoes were sitting nearby my office overnight for at least 12 hours. The ambulance was busy going to get it’s patient methinks…

Have you “vanished” lately? Any plans to?