What is McPhotography? Put simply, it’s candid photography in which a key component of the environment, but not the subject itself, is McDonalds. As an extension, the same term can also be applied to any ubiquitous example of globalization (a.k.a. Starbucks, Burger King, KFC, and so on).
This is a collection of my McPhotography. Click on a thumb to open a full version.
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The blog header crops about 100px of the top, but since I know that it’s easier to pick something that visually “works” there.
That’s great that you got to take your kids there. We just happened to stumble upon the cycling event near Taipei City Hall. David Reed has some great photos of it. My kids enjoyed rooting for the cyclists and predicting which color jersey would win.
If you plan on going again, let me know. We may join you.
@Scott That was the first medaled event, and our team (US) got the gold.
I want to go to the stadium again next weekend, but I’m not sure that I can convince my wife. Maybe if Daisy and Sherry poke her about it a little
Nice pics. I’m going to try and spend a bit of time there tomorrow afternoon, and maybe again next weekend.
Yeah if I can convince the family, I’ll head back there on Sunday.
WHAT fun photos!! it makes me happy, to see kids live with such joy.
The image of the spilling coffee beans and the couple is really quite nice. It reminds me of the famous Newman portrait of Stravinsky.
@Mark Thanks so much. It was quite crowded at that time, but through the magic of framing…
I’m hopeful for them. But I know that Yi, one of the girls in the video, loved Taiwan so much that she’s moving here on October 17 for six months at least. That should be part of the story.
@Marcus: I didn’t know that at all (it wasn’t in her email to me), but I’ll add it now that I know.
Thanks!
Hi David, I read your posting about the Deaflympics Cycling event and noticed that you commented that Taipei lacks a velodrome facility, while this is true, there is a track venue about 1hr away from Taipei.
Traditionally at Deaflympics, the 1000m sprint is done on road bikes and for the most part on the road. Just like you saw at the Taipei City Centre. The reason for racing on road bikes is because there is not enough “specialist” Deaf Track riders in the world to support track bikes on a velodrome. If everyone of us was required to bring a track-bike, then many of us will be bringing three bikes to compete on.
I thought that the location at the City Hall was a great one. Easy access for people of Taipei to spectate and enjoy the thrill of high speed racing. The 50km points race was also held at the same venue on a 1km circuit.
I represented New Zealand at the Deaflympics and have decided to stay on here in Taipei. If you have time, please send me a message on gmail. Thanks.
@Daniel: David’s blog, and that article, are here. I have passed on to him that you left a comment on my Deaflympics article via Twitter.
Thank you so much for your interesting insight in the event.
Thanks for the post!
Yup, I sure loved Taiwan that much that I’m moving over there next week! Just got back from the States and now frantically unpacking and packing at the same time.
I found the people to be really chilled in Taipei and generally very helpful and outgoing. Another main reason is because my forte is in marketing and I find Taiwan to be more relaxed when it comes social media tools and online knowledge sharing.
Look forward to coming over and hope to thank you in person Brian!
Cheers
Yi
Very nice, I look forward to seeing it.
That’s a very cool looking camera. Nice photos as always.
It’s truly a thing of beauty, and it looks mint, too. A sweet purchase. You’ve got me nostalgic for my old Pentax K1000. Thanks for keeping the tradition alive. Hope to have a closer look at a future Photowalk.
Good, strong series. Well done.
@Craig Thanks much, Craig. Hope you guys had fun on the photowalk today
It only goes downhill from here. Brace yourself — you’re in for a lot of pink in your life
@hkh It’s not so bad. We have twin sons, so no little girl to use as a Hello Kitty “excuse”.
Hello from Russia!
Can I quote a post in your blog with the link to you?
@Polprav Sure, but there’s nothing to quote from this article?
I’m about to cave in and sign up for WiFly, since there doesn’t appear to be a (easy?) way to get GPRS support on pre-paid phone card. Since I’m only here for a month, getting a contract makes no sense. Thanks for the info Brian. FYI, handing off with WiFi is possible but messy. WiFi has still got a long way to go in catching up to the mobility provided by GPRS/3G, one major reason why I’m not a supporter of metro-wifi.
I thought sharks had 4 fins removed from each shark, sharks come with more than one fin, so claiming each fin is dead shark is not true.
lying about shark fining does more damage than good.
In the video of shark-finning that I’ve seen (via Shark Week on the Discovery Channel), they only remove the dorsal fin before tossing the still-alive shark back into the ocean to flounder and die.
That’s one fin per shark.
that is so sad
This article is about a aboriginal tribe in Taiwan, not that guy.
Why are you not also considering the Panasonic GF1?
It was lost in between the PEN, which is the first and most well-known body in this newish “class” of camera and the GRX, which is the most recent entry and one with an interesting gimmick.
Got myself a used M8, exorbitantly hefty price tag, but well worth it.
Is the GRX even out yet? I personally can’t stand the huge, ungainly digital M’s. Hopefully someday Leica will get the proportions back down to those of the just-right M3/M6.
The GRX became available just in time for the holidays. A friend in Malaysia got the full kit (body and both lenses) as a Christmas gift from his family and put his thoughts on it HERE.
It looks like it has excellent high ISO performance, but since the sensor is in the lens, that will differ from lens to lens I guess.
That link goes to a review of the GR Digital III, Brian. I’d be curious to see more hands-on reviews of the GRX, but I’m not sure I’d like the idea of tying sensor to lens. Also, with the EP1/2 or GF1, you’d be able to use your current lenses, albeit at twice the focal length.
You’re right…must’ve been the lack of caffeine, which has since been solved.
He has a few Ricoh GR models… his GRX testing is HERE.
Hey Brian,
Great article, thanks, very useful. FYI EasyWIFI is currently free on the Apple app store, at least for now. Get it while it’s hot! Haven’t signed up for it yet but my resistance is weakening … I’m planning on getting an iPad asap, at which point resistance will crumble completely.
It may not work with WiFly anymore as since I wrote the article they’ve changed their authentication process. I haven’t tried with Easy WIFI it recently.
I think it’s free now because much of what it does (the auto-login on webpage-based authentication) has been part of the iPhone/iPod Touch OS since v3.0
Hey mate, when looking at your site i see some kind of weird codes all over the page, in case it’s important I just thought I’d let you know it says this with all sorts of other stuff after it: “Warning: Cannot modify header information ? headers already sent in wp-settings.php line 12″
You may have caught my site as I was updating the WP core and about 4 plugins. Everything seems to be working fine now.