New roll of pictures to the photoblog if you didn't know. Not setting any blogging speed records, but it's been busy with me and posting the photos involves a bit of editing and a lot of copying and pasting.
Update: The scans from Clark were only up for a month, so I'll have to be reposting them. Have them all on CD if anyone wants a copy.
10.11.2004
10.02.2004
Rolling, rolling, rolling
So I finally found enough time to get my first roll of film ready and up. Since the film posts will all be very long and incongruous with the writing part of the blog, I thought it better to give the photos their own page.
Some of what you've been missing
The first post is titled simply, "Roll 1: Arrival Explorations and Da'an" and shows all my shots in the order I captured them, with captions. It can be found on the new photos page, 2004 Taiwan Photos. I'll try getting a couple more rolls up later this week.
Some of what you've been missing
The first post is titled simply, "Roll 1: Arrival Explorations and Da'an" and shows all my shots in the order I captured them, with captions. It can be found on the new photos page, 2004 Taiwan Photos. I'll try getting a couple more rolls up later this week.
9.13.2004
Hello
So, got all my photos developed by Friday. The developer scanned them all in for me, so they're online. If you haven't received an invite from me, just ask. I spent a few hours in a mammoth captioning session and named all 185 (!).
From Taroko Gorge
Just now I've been experimenting with the Hello program to post them here. I want to post all of them in hi-res (1024x680) copies eventually, but it will take a while, especially since I need to edit some first. I'll try finishing some more posts so all the photos integrate better with the narrative, but there's still going to be a ton left over, so I'll probably throw them all in a huge "Photos" post where they're all together.
From Taroko Gorge
Just now I've been experimenting with the Hello program to post them here. I want to post all of them in hi-res (1024x680) copies eventually, but it will take a while, especially since I need to edit some first. I'll try finishing some more posts so all the photos integrate better with the narrative, but there's still going to be a ton left over, so I'll probably throw them all in a huge "Photos" post where they're all together.
8.26.2004
After the storm
Aere's cleared out by now, but it left a real mess. Looks like every tree has been trimmed and all the branches and leaf clippings blasted about with a fire hose. Walking around, I saw dozens of trees that were blown down and many many trees with big branches torn off. The branches themselves were often the size of mid-sized trees. One tree in Da'an with a 30-cm trunk was snapped in half rather than uprooted. Most of the mess was from trees, but there were also some torn-down and smashed-up signs and corrugated plastic air conditioner awnings. Abandoned inside-out umbrellas topped it all off.
The winds for all this were pretty strong—140 km/h steady and 180 km/h gusts. The wind really makes the typhoon. The wind knocked down practically every bicycle I saw and even some rows of scooters.
The rain was consistant for three days, but not as heavy as other, normal storms. Everything looks sopped, but there was no flooding around here. The news carried video of lots of other places weren't so lucky. There were some deaths in a mudslide and in some lost fishing ships.
The winds for all this were pretty strong—140 km/h steady and 180 km/h gusts. The wind really makes the typhoon. The wind knocked down practically every bicycle I saw and even some rows of scooters.
The rain was consistant for three days, but not as heavy as other, normal storms. Everything looks sopped, but there was no flooding around here. The news carried video of lots of other places weren't so lucky. There were some deaths in a mudslide and in some lost fishing ships.
8.24.2004
Typhoons really aren't too fun
Today was supposed to be the last day of classes. Only it wasn't. Another (the fourth?) typhoon, Aere, is passing over Taiwan. All schools and government offices were closed for the day, as well as most everything else. Tomorrow is already declared another typhoon holiday.
Pretty disappointed to have missed today. Didn't get the chance to say good-bye to everybody, didn't get the chance to improve on my calligraphy one last time and didn't get the chance to see a performance I was going to at The National Concert Hall.
What's more, my flight back on Friday may be delayed. Not from Aere, it'll have moved on by then. But there's another typhoon, a Super Typhoon Chaba, that will be heading over Japan, my first scheduled layover. You can look at the latest map of their progess and wish me luck getting back on time.
Pretty disappointed to have missed today. Didn't get the chance to say good-bye to everybody, didn't get the chance to improve on my calligraphy one last time and didn't get the chance to see a performance I was going to at The National Concert Hall
What's more, my flight back on Friday may be delayed. Not from Aere, it'll have moved on by then. But there's another typhoon, a Super Typhoon Chaba, that will be heading over Japan, my first scheduled layover. You can look at the latest map of their progess and wish me luck getting back on time.
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