After a (too long) hiatus, Im back with some new street photography from Taipei, Taiwan.
The best camera is the one thats in your hands. This axiom is especially true for enthusiasts of any sort of documentary photography, such as photojournalism or street. Given that my (and probably your) mobile phone is either on me or more accessible to me than my proper camera more often than not, it is actually an important component of my greater camera kit. As I did with my prior mobile (read my HTC Desire HD camera review), I put my new Samsung Galaxy Note 2 camera through its paces and thought Id pass along my thoughts to you. With the exception of a few software differences (most involving S-Pen use), the Note 2 has the same camera package as its smaller brother so you can consider this a Samsung Galaxy S3 camera review, too.
In Taiwan, strawberries are a winter fruit. Miaoli County, which sits south of Taipei, is the center of the strawberry universe. Every weekend dozens of tourist busses leave from Taipei Main Station filled with agro-tourists ready to strip the farms bare of anything with even the slightest red tinge followed by a stop off at the center of Miaoli City for some strawberry wine, strawberry ice cream, strawberries over shaved ice drowned in condensed milk, strawberry smoothies, strawberry candies, … you get the idea. There are even strawberry-flavored corn dogs and Taiwanese sausages.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
As usually happens on daytrips out of the city, we stop briefly at a street market on the way back. As it happens, the fascinating farm of the frenzied friendly foot-feeding fish was in the mountains of Hsinchu county, the route to and from took us through the town of Beipu, which has a nice street market. Unlike last time at the Wulai city center in which we only had a few minutes, this time we had an hour to wander around before we had to hop back on the bus.
So here are the pictures of the Beipu old street market I was able to get in that time.
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.
Here are this weeks street pictures of Taipei.
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