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Aerial F1 – Singapore at Night by Wong Kin Leong
You may remember Wong Kin Leong from an earlier feature in the Shutterbug series. Well, over the past few months he’s been very busy covering the Singapore F1 Grand Prix night race for the Singapore Tourism Board. One component of that coverage was aerial photos of the city at night during the race. I recently conducted an email interview with him, so read on to see what he has to say about helicopters, aerial photography and the preparations that went into the event.

Five For Friday – Wufenpu Market
Wufenpu got its name from five Chinese families who bought up the land in the area back in 1769. Today, the area is a large clothing and materials market and that’s what we’re going to be looking at on 5 this week. Located opposite the Songshan train station, Wufenpu is a sprawling market that offers some of the lowest priced retail fashion in Taipei, as well as being a busy wholesale clothing market. I was in the area last week, so wandered around for an hour or so photographing the goings on. Incidentally, these photos were all processed from the RAW files in the beta version of

Handmade Noodles – A Chinese Tradition
As an essential, staple ingredient in Chinese cuisine, noodles are familiar to most people. Noodles come in a great number of varieties, some being wheat based (miàn), and some rice or starch based (fěn). Today, we’re going to take a look at some photographs of traditional, handmade misua, a thin, salted wheat flour noodle that originated in Fujian, China. Read on after the jump for a little more history and a few more photos. Don’t forget that my 2010 calendar Renegade Beauty | Taiwan 2010 is available to buy for only $24.99.

Renegade Beauty – Taiwan 2010 Calendar
As my free monthly desktop calendars have been so popular, I’ve decided to go one better for 2010 and produce a twelve month wall calendar for you. Renegade Beauty | Taiwan 2010 is a full color, 22 page wall calendar that’s 11″ x 17″ coir bound 100 weight paper that would look great on any wall. Full of pictures showing the natural and cultural beauty of Taiwan, it’s available at the low price of $24.99 and ships globally in 3-5 days. Get it while stocks last.

November Desktop Calendar
Calendar time again. For November we have an image from the now-demolished San-zhr pod village. These photos are always popular so it’ll give you something unique for your desktop this month. As always, the links are below for each of the sizes. Cmd click (Mac) or right click (Win) on the size you want and save it to your desktop. I’d love to hear your thoughts on the calendars, so drop me a note in the comments below. 2560×1600