June Desktop Calendar
This months calendar is a night view of the great Buddha at Baguashan in Changhua, Taiwan. Built in the 1960′s, this 22m high statue was once the largest Buddha statue in Asia. As always, there are a number of different sizes, including an iPad sized version. Choose the appropriate link below for your screen size. [...]
May Desktop Calendar
It’s time for another free desktop calendar. May 2010 features a masked performer from the Sho Qing Opera Troupe. If you’re in Taiwan, late May sees a number of free Taiwanese opera performances take place along Dihua St in Taipei. Traditional opera is an important part of Taiwanese and Chinese culture and is a must [...]
April Desktop Calendar
It’s once again time for another free desktop calendar. For April we have a shot from a recent studio session with Eszter, a Hungarian bellydancer. Choose your size according to the links below. Following those is a slideshow featuring other images from the session. 2560×1600 1920×1200 1680×1050 1600×1200 1440×900 1280×1024 1024×768 iPhone Google phone Eszter [...]
Coffee – Not Just For Drinking
Following on from yesterday’s home studio tip, with the addition of a macro lens, some extension tubes or close up filters, you can create some very cool shots. I’m a lover of fresh coffee and so always have a healthy supply of coffee beans in my home. This is what we’ll look at today. Before [...]
Breaking The Rules
Most photographers are familiar with rules of thumb such as the rule of thirds and suggestions like “don’t cut people’s heads off”. For the most part, these are pretty good tips to follow. You should definitely have a grounding in and basic understanding of them, even if you don’t always abide by them. Before we [...]
Sequences
How do you get that one great shot, particularly when you don’t have time to set it up or when you have constantly changing situations or a dynamic subject? One solution is to shoot a lot of frames one after the after to ensure that you capture the perfect shot.
Dinnertime – A Food Photography Primer
Dinnertime is a great time for photography with both your food and dining companions making good subjects. Here in Taiwan, it sometimes seems like there are more people in a restaurant photographing their food than there are people eating. And by far the majority of those taking photos are doing so with their cell phones [...]
December desktop wallpaper calendar
2009 is fast drawing to a close so today’s post brings you the final desktop calendar for the year. Don’t forget that my 2010 calendar Renegade Beauty | Taiwan 2010 is available to buy for the low price of $24.99. It looks great on any wall, so if you haven’t already done so, place your [...]
Simply Food
The title of today’s post is Simply Food and that’s pretty much what it is. A series of photographs of food in various forms and states. Food has been written about, celebrated, eaten, photographed, thrown, cooked and plenty more for centuries. I’m just going to share a few photographs. A little bit of housekeeping before [...]
Handmade Noodles – A Chinese Tradition
As an essential, staple ingredient in Chinese cuisine, noodles are familiar to most people. Noodles come in a great number of varieties, some being wheat based (miàn), and some rice or starch based (fěn). Today, we’re going to take a look at some photographs of traditional, handmade misua, a thin, salted wheat flour noodle that [...]
November Desktop Calendar
Calendar time again. For November we have an image from the now-demolished San-zhr pod village. These photos are always popular so it’ll give you something unique for your desktop this month. As always, the links are below for each of the sizes. Cmd click (Mac) or right click (Win) on the size you want and [...]
Sheri at Tai-Da
Taipei seems to be a popular destination for American models this summer. Fresh from the shoot with Jen a couple of weeks ago, I met up with Sheri. Hailing from New York and represented by Abrams Artists Agency, Sheri is in Taipei for a couple of months and we met up on a rainy Sunday [...]
National Museum of Taiwanese Literature
The National Museum of Taiwanese Literature was opened in 2003 in the southern city of Tainan. The museum is dedicated to researching, preserving, cataloging and exhibiting literary artifacts. The museum thematically traces the history of Taiwan’s literary development. The introduction celebrates Taiwan’s spirit of self-determination, and highlights her struggle as she treads her literary journey.
Jen in Ximending
LA-based model Jennifer is in Taipei for the summer and we met up last week for a quick shoot in Taipei’s trendy Ximending area. With temperatures in the mid-thirties centigrade, we tried to find some shady areas, but even still, we only shot for 2 hours or so. All images were taken with a Canon [...]
Green Taipei
Hailed as East Asia’s most eco-friendly building, the Beitou branch of Taipei’s public library system is a marvel of green architecture. Formally opened in late 2006, the library is the first in Taiwan to qualify for a diamond rating (the highest) under the government’s EEWH (Ecology, Energy saving, Waste reduction and Health) certification system for [...]
Folk Culture Portraiture
As promised yesterday, here is a series of folk culture portraiture photographs. The Taipei Xiahai City God’s birthday is commemorated on the 13th day of the 5th Chinese lunar month, and a two week long series of traditional Chinese and Taiwanese opera performances were held in the public square alongside the temple.
Preview : Folk Culture Portraiture
Here’s a preview from a new series on Chinese opera. Check back tomorrow for the full post.
Tina in Taipei
I recently had the chance to shoot some portfolio photographs for a young Swedish model, Tina. Tina is a Masters student and is hoping to be able to make a little extra money over the summer as a model. To do that, she needed a portfolio, so we set a time and place and spent [...]
Cosplay @ Huashan
Comic book characters and other elements of fantasy descended on Huashan Culture Park in Taipei, Taiwan on April 18th for a comic book convention. Many came out dressed as their favorite characters in what was seemingly a World War II Europe type theme. For those of you unfamiliar with cosplay, take a look at this [...]
Taiwan Stories – The Lifesaver
As a travel and documentary photographer, I regularly come into contact with a wide variety of people from all walks of life. The more I travel and learn, the more it reinforces the idea that people everywhere are essentially kind, generous and willing to give of themselves. Stopping to take the time to talk with [...]
Lantern Festival in Taiwan
Happy Lantern Festival The fifteenth day of the first lunar festival is celebrated as Lantern Festival. It marks the first full moon of the new year and various types of colored lanterns, both simple and elaborate, can be seen wherever Chinese culture exists. In Taiwan, the festival becomes more popular each year, with more and [...]
X-Bikes Get Air
Thursday photo in the theme competition is from the Taipei Cycle Show earlier this year.
Chinese Taipei v Taipei City FC
Chinese Taipei’s national football team met Taipei City FC, an all-star team comprising the top foreign players from the various Taipei teams, at Zhongshan Soccer Stadium. Photos by Craig Ferguson and Selina Tseng. ©Craig Ferguson Images 2008
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