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Of Banks and Dinosaur Fossils in Taipei

By On October 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Almost directly across from the National Taiwan Museum entrance at 228 Peace Memorial Park is the Land Bank old building. Now, I know what you’re thinking:
“A bank. How exciting.”

It is. First off, it’s a great example of colonial-era architecture of which there are not many. More importantly, there is a large exhibition hall inside…

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Beetles, the Caterpillars of Asia

By On August 2, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I grew up in a somewhat rural area near Los Angeles, California. As the area was relatively (relative to LA) undeveloped, certain wild plants such as milkweed were commonplace. California is also on the North American monarch butterfly migratory route. Add milkweed abundance to butterflies and I grew up surrounded with caterpillars. Caterpillars were my first-person cycle of life lesson.

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Street Photography Tutorial: Context!

By On May 17, 2011 · 2 Comments

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I like this photo a lot. It was taken a couple years ago outside of a McDonalds near where I was teaching at the time. What I like most about this [...]

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The Magic of the Olympus Digital Pen at Night

By On February 22, 2011 · 6 Comments

I was originally going to entitle this article The Magic of the Olympus E-P2 at Night, but as I went through the features that make the Olympus E-P2 such a great nighttime imaging tool I realized that the pieces that make it so were in the entire Digital Pen line currently on the market (the [...]

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Mobile Phone Street Photography

By On February 8, 2011 · 7 Comments

I guess this can be called a “put your money where your mouth is” follow up to my HTC Desire HD review, which I spent evaluating the device less like a phone and more like a camera. After writing it I decided to actually put some conscious effort into taking images with it rather then [...]

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HTC Desire HD Review, a Photographer’s Perspective

By On January 6, 2011 · 14 Comments

Up until recently, I’d always viewed mobile phones from a purely communications point of view. They were used to send and receive messages, auditory or textual, and that was it. This isn’t to say that that I was somehow a Luddite when it came to mobile devices. I have both an iPod Touch and iPad. [...]

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