Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
There were more than a few occasions this Taiwan trip where I was invited to join the kids and Ling in taking part in our itinerary activities: e.g. strawberry and grape fruit picking, or a dip into the hot springs
Huashan 1914 Creative Park visited for the kids, it was my turn for another photography enthusiast activity: up Taipei 101 for a sunset shoot. You can choose any time to visit of course, but there is really no contest between
The Taroko Gorge, inside the National Park, is among the three most talked about and rated ‘must visits’ when sightseeing in Taiwan, with the other two being Sun Moon Lake, and Alishan. This trip we’ve settled for two out of
With the benefit of hindsight, while we didn’t do the crazy early ascent up Mt. Hehuan (合歡山, or Joy Mountain) for the morning sunrise – next trip maybe?! – the mid-morning drive up the mountain was actually at least as
We decided that an early morning ascent up Mt. Hehuan would be too much for the kids to handle. The drive from Cingjing to Mt. Hehuan would have taken an hour, and in order to make the sunrise timing in
The first three days of visitations in our Taiwan trip have been, for the most part, kid-centric: including places like Carton King, strawberry and grape picking, Miyahara Ice-Cream, Rainbow Village and Shengxing Station. As we moved to the second quarter
It was about 6:15PM by the time we got back to Taichung city. It’d been a fairly long day already and though this time would be just considered late afternoon back at home, it was really early night in the
We stayed at Zhongshe Tourism Flower Market until about a quarter to three. Back in Singapore, the mid-day sun would be at its zenith and warmest at this time. But in Taichung, the sun was already starting to duck behind
I’m a creature of habit that routinely overpacks when it comes to traveling! Like in the previous trips, a tripod and ballhead got tossed into the luggage bag and since I’d lugged it all the way to Bali, I had
Of the whole bunch of new lens acquisitions for the Sony A73, the one new lens that has widen the range of photography I enjoy doing has been the Sony FE 16-35mm f4.0. Specifically, I’ve not used wide-angles much since
It’s been nearly a month since the Sony A7 III was released on retail. And likely because of overwhelming demand for it, there are still stores, especially in the United States, where the camera is still backordered and out of
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