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During the Double Ten holiday I met up with photographers Mark Forman, Darren Melrose, David Lin, and Joe Lin for the first ever Google+ Photowalk held in Taiwan. We met at Taichung Train Station and worked our way through Jianguo Market, Taichung Park, and Yizhong Street. Here’s a small collection of photographs taken during the walk:
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Nautilus Cross-Section
My kindergarten class had the opportunity to go on a long overdue field trip to the National Museum of Natural Science in Taichung. This post contains a small collection of photographs that don’t include my students [actually, the only photographs that don't include students]:
In early October, my school embarked on a company trip to some of Chiayi County’s lesser-known attractions. It’s impossible to enjoy the scenery pass-by or engage in a pleasant conversation with the person sitting next to you on a bus ride for a company trip. Every minute on the bus has an activity planned: Ours included some goofy memory games, an informative speech about the destinations we would be visiting [followed immediately by a Q&A session to make sure we were paying attention], raffles, number guessing games, riddles, and KTV. For losing one of the games I was forced to tell a joke, I chose the Joker’s final joke from The Killing Joke. As a reward I won a pack of instant noodles – clearly the highlight of the bus ride. I was reluctant to take part in the KTV portion of the trip but sang an Wu Bai song to be a good sport. My portion of the bus was particularly rowdy – I don’t know if that had to do with KTV coupled with room temperature Heinekens or the fact that all my coworkers are overworked and don’t get out enough.
Continue reading ‘Chiayi’s Suantou Sugar Refinery’
Taichung’s Nantun Armory
On Saturday, I met up with my friend and fellow blogger Mark Forman for a photowalk through a portion of Taichung’s Nantun District. Here’s a small collection of photographs from our morning walk:
Continue reading ‘Taichung’s Nantun District – December 18 Photowalk’
On Saturday, I met up with bloggers Mark Forman and David Reid for a photowalk in downtown Taichung. Our walk took us through areas near Taichung Train Station. Walking across from the station we began our tour through a once robust area which has decreased in importance as Taichung’s center of gravity has shifted. The photo used at the top of this post is of one of the many abandoned buildings which are prevalent on that side of town. We walked through the Jade Market and Taichung Park before heading to Yizhong Street and completing our loop back to the train station.
Continue reading ‘Taichung Photowalk Roundrobin [August edition]‘
I met up with Mark and David for the Taichung-edition of Scott Kelby’s Third Annual Worldwide Photowalk. Mark led us around Taichung’s West District on a hot and overcast Saturday afternoon. Although I didn’t come back with any stellar shots, it was a lot of fun exploring with great company.
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We headed to Taichung City’s Chun An Military Dependents’ Village [春安眷村] this morning before the heavy rains came. The village has become popular from the paintings by Huang Yung-fu [黃永阜], a veteran in his mid-80s who has transformed this once nondescript village into a vibrant tourist destination for young couples and families.
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A couple weeks back Cathy and I checked out the Hejia Ranch [禾家牧場] on Yinghangshan [銀行山]. The ranch was established twenty years ago and specializes in dairy products such as milk, ice cream, yogurt, and popsicles. Yinghangshan is located on Baguashan [八卦山], making this a popular spot for families and cyclists.
A few weeks ago, my wife and I visited Ershui [二水] in Changhua County. We parked at the lot next to the train station and took a leisurely stroll along the road that runs perpendicular to the train station. We mostly took pictures of old buildings along the way.
As mentioned in the yesterday’s post, over the weekend I met up with Mark Forman, David Ried, and Darren Melrose for a photowalk in Taichung. My previous post featured my favorite photographs from Saturday’s get-together taken by the other photographers. Mark, David, and Darren have also posted their favorite photographs from everyone.
Here are six of my own shots that I took during the photowalk that I personally like and weren’t featured elsewhere:
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