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Taiwan trip photos, part 1
Wed, Feb. 8th, 2006 12:22 pmFinally, I start posting some of the pictures I took in Taiwan! I usually suck at taking pictures because I either forget my camera or forget to take pictures, so this is quite unusual for me (and is therefore totally blamed on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rachelmanija).
The picture taking didn't get off to a good start, as I hit the airport, saw a really cool iPod vending machine (at SFO, not Taiwan!), and discovered to my great chagrin that my camera wasn't in my backpack. I hoped against hope that I had somehow packed it in my luggage, but it was not so.
The night before, I had apparently very thoughtfully packed my camera charger, unloaded the SD card, reloaded it in the camera, and left the darn thing on my desk in California.
Thankfully, my dad had a camera that he let me steal for a while.
It was very, very hard taking pictures of food! One, everyone that I eat with looks at me funny. Even though my dad took pictures of basically every single meal when he went to Japan, he looked at me funny too (probably because I was taking pictures of the equivalent of take-out, not fancily arranged restaurant food). Plus, everytime I tried to take a picture in a weird location (read: the convenience store, the comic book store, any non-tourist place), I felt like a newspaper reporter or a spy. I even asked the convenience store lady for her permission! I think she thought I was a corporate spy from 7-Eleven or another company. My mom explained that I was from America and wanted to show my friends.
The people at the street stands wouldn't let me at all (probably because they're illegal and thought I might be working for the police, eh heh), so I had to sneak pictures over my mom's shoulder or somesuch. So there would be this bright flash while I took the picture of someone preparing whatever I had ordered, and then the guy would look around, totally confused, while I quickly hid the camera.
I also had a very hard time figuring out what to take pictures of, besides the food. I wanted to give people a good feel of Taiwan, but I felt silly taking pictures of the streets. I couldn't figure out what people would find interesting, so mostly you have random photos and things that I thought were funny or possibly culturally illuminating. Or just weird. You know.
Anyhow, I've got pictures of the first few days in Taiwan, which were fairly low-key and non-note-worthy. Watch out! There are a ton of them, and this is just the tip of the iceberg! I friends-locked some pictures (pretty much anything with people I knew, or me), so that's why some things might show up strangely.
ETA: Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
( A ton of pictures )
rachelmanija). The picture taking didn't get off to a good start, as I hit the airport, saw a really cool iPod vending machine (at SFO, not Taiwan!), and discovered to my great chagrin that my camera wasn't in my backpack. I hoped against hope that I had somehow packed it in my luggage, but it was not so.
The night before, I had apparently very thoughtfully packed my camera charger, unloaded the SD card, reloaded it in the camera, and left the darn thing on my desk in California.
Thankfully, my dad had a camera that he let me steal for a while.
It was very, very hard taking pictures of food! One, everyone that I eat with looks at me funny. Even though my dad took pictures of basically every single meal when he went to Japan, he looked at me funny too (probably because I was taking pictures of the equivalent of take-out, not fancily arranged restaurant food). Plus, everytime I tried to take a picture in a weird location (read: the convenience store, the comic book store, any non-tourist place), I felt like a newspaper reporter or a spy. I even asked the convenience store lady for her permission! I think she thought I was a corporate spy from 7-Eleven or another company. My mom explained that I was from America and wanted to show my friends.
The people at the street stands wouldn't let me at all (probably because they're illegal and thought I might be working for the police, eh heh), so I had to sneak pictures over my mom's shoulder or somesuch. So there would be this bright flash while I took the picture of someone preparing whatever I had ordered, and then the guy would look around, totally confused, while I quickly hid the camera.
I also had a very hard time figuring out what to take pictures of, besides the food. I wanted to give people a good feel of Taiwan, but I felt silly taking pictures of the streets. I couldn't figure out what people would find interesting, so mostly you have random photos and things that I thought were funny or possibly culturally illuminating. Or just weird. You know.
Anyhow, I've got pictures of the first few days in Taiwan, which were fairly low-key and non-note-worthy. Watch out! There are a ton of them, and this is just the tip of the iceberg! I friends-locked some pictures (pretty much anything with people I knew, or me), so that's why some things might show up strangely.
ETA: Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
( A ton of pictures )