Shark Fin Soup and Dead Sharks
First of all, I have to say that today was a pretty good day. Craig Ferguson organized another photowalk, which I will cover once I’ve processed the rolls of Tri-X. As usual, I met a couple new people and caught up with a few familiar faces, had some good conversations, and got (I’m hoping) some decent photos. But there was one downer to the experience, and it wasn’t the 5 minutes of rain in the evening. Rain and Tri-X go well together. It was this:

Streets Saturday: Ocean Park
A couple weekend ago we made what has become a biannual trip to Ocean Park in Hualien, central Taiwan. It happens when you have kids.

Streets Saturday: Civil Service
This weeks streets Saturday feature is dedicated to those who work at the ground level to keep the city working.

Canon Canonet Review
Remember last May when the shutter on my Bessa R2A failed during the Dragon Boat Festival Races? A few weeks later, after I was finally able to put together the cash to have it repaired, I discovered a very clean 1961 Canon Canonet in the front display case of the repair shop. While I didn’t get it at the time (had to pay for that R2A to get fixed first, after all), a mental image of that Canonet was etched into my consciousness and refused to leave until a couple weeks ago. When I went back to the repair shop with NT$3500 (~US$1

Taiwan Best Trip Competetion
So, I really hadn’t paid a lot of attention to the Taiwan Best Trip Competition. I mean, I had gotten the tweets about it from various friends on the island, but didn’t put any effort in to finding out any more information about it. I mean, 4 days? I know Taiwan is a small island but there’s no way you can cover it in 4 days…but if you base yourself in Taipei you can cover (in general swaths) the cultures of Taiwan in 4 days. And that’s exactly the idea that a contest entrant whose email was waiting for me in my inbox this morning had. Check out her video: