Scenes From A Cutting Room Floor | Taiwan Travel Photographers

Ping Chu, Director of Aveda Taiwan takes a photo with his iPhone

Ping Chu, Director of Aveda Taiwan and owner of Non-zero restaurant takes a photo with his iPhone

At the moment I’m sitting on quite a few different photo stories and projects that are in various stages of completion. Other than one I started shooting this morning, the rest are just waiting for publication and the go ahead from clients before I can share any of the photographs here. At least one should be ready to show later this week or early next week and another is not far behind that. In the meantime, I’ve been shooting a lot of cell phone stuff using the Vignette App on Android (which I’ll post later this week) and tidying up my archives from earlier this year. Today I’m going to share a few photographs from Taidong county in the east of Taiwan. I was down there in January for Monocle magazine and these are some of the images that didn’t make the final cut. Either they didn’t fit the story, a different image was chosen, the entire section of article didn’t end up being written or in a couple of cases, they were late night, high-ISO shots that weren’t completely connected to the story. All in all, I shot about 80GB of photographs of which 28 single images ended up being used. Here are a few of the more than 2000 that ended up on the cutting room floor.