I met up with MJ Klein, the New Hampshire Bushman, his beautiful wife , Hui Chen, and Saumen for some music at a Thai nightclub and the best Thai food I’ve had in Taiwan at  Shao-hui’s in Hukou. We actually started at the Pig and Whistle in Hsinchu, where a forumosa.com afternoon happy hour was taking place. After a couple of hours at the happy hour, we headed to Thai Star, where MJ was playing a set with Thai band Fong. He had previously played with them at an SE Asian Music Festival which he blogged about a couple of weeks ago. Incidentally, MJ was a featured photographer on this site a couple of months ago. Okay, enough of the words, it’s time for the photos. Enjoy.

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For the photo geeks amongst you, here’s a couple of technical notes. This club was dark. Very dark. To capture these shots, I needed to shoot at ISO 1600 and 3200, underexpose a lot of the shots and drag the shutter just to get something usable. Very tough shooting conditions. And to make matters worse, there was a hot yellow light above MJ’s head that was blowing out most of the shots. If I exposed so that it wasn’t blown out, everything else ended up too underexposed to use. I’ll post a few outtakes later in the week of some shots that didn’t quite work.

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