So I did it! I have managed to processed all the photographs taken during our trip to Taipei within three days of return. That is a feat of discipline. I still have years old albums unprocessed, waiting to see the day of light. With more and more different shapes and forms of distraction we have in our daily life, it is getting harder to focus on to something and get it done. This change of mine is so positive that I am feeling the energy. Next, I would like to memorize some quotes from Romeo & Juliet so that I can pen down something artistically intelligent in public without referring to the Internet. It is a long story for another day.
My wife and I have spent six nights in Taipei. We stayed in Mandarin Oriental for three nights. Then we stayed in Our Home 187 in Jiufen for two nights. Finally, stayed in Mandarin Oriental for another night. I brought along my Nikon D700 as well as my two lenses – Nikkor 24-70mm f2.4 and Nikkor 70-200mm f2.4. Pretty heavy stuff but it was worth it. Especially the long lens for photographing the animals in Taipei Zoo. I always love the results from my Nikkor 70-200mm anyway, even for the portrait. Photo albums as follows.
- Day 2 National Palace Museum
- Day 2 Shilin Night Market
- Day 3 Taipei Zoo
- Day 3 Ximending
- Day 4 Jiufen Gold Museum
- Day 4 Jiufen Shuqi Street
- Day 5 Keelong Mountain Hiking
- Day 5 Shifen
In addition, I have also taken some pictures using my Nexus 5x. The quality is not as good. But at times, the phone camera serves its purpose to add context to short journals. Links to the entries as follows.
- The view from Mandarin Oriental hotel room
- Japanese dinner at Hachibei near Taipei 101 (actually closer to Taipei City Hall)
- More food
- Breakfast table at Mandarin Oriental
- View from our breakfast table
- Our breakfast (The “faces”)
- National Palace Museum
- Outside the station of Jiantan
- Water dispenser in Taipei Zoo
- Gift shop in Taipei Zoo
- Eucalyptus trees in Taipei Zoo
- The zoo entrance
- The market in Addiction Aquatic Development
- Standing sushi bar at Addiction Aquatic Development
- Taking a bus to Jiufen
- “Our Home 187” in Jiufen
- A cat in B&B
- A “map” from B&B
- A view from the Gold Museum in Jiufen
- The place that inspired “Spirited Away” the movie
- We dined in “A Sad City”
- Even dessert stall comes with a view
- Living room of “Our Home 187”
- Large windows in the living room
- On top of Keelong Mountain
- On our way down from the peak
- Food menu in Chinese
- At Jiufen Old Street
- Taking a train to Shifen
- Shifen is rather charming
- Breakfast at B&B … dumplings
- How some signed the guestbook
- Ferrari and Hooters
- Beef noodle at Dongmen
- Big teddy bear at Dongmen
- A stationary shop
- A statue inside a university
- Another stationary shop
- A poem outside a public toilet
- From inside Taipei 101
- An embryo statue outside Taipei 101
- A road junction near Taipei 101
- Dinner at Din Tai Fung
- Art appreciation after dinner
- A very nice Mercedes near Taipei 101
- In front of Eslite the bookstore