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My brother-in-law is the proverbial Chinese laundry entrepreneur. His establishment/home in Taipei is accessible by going down a long walk that is lined with motorcycles on one side, and the bicycles you see here on the other...

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This is me and one of my photographer buddies when we get old...

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This is what people think of as typically Chinese, taken in a museum complex right in the middle of Taipei. There is a person sitting in the pagoda.

The next few postings were taken in this same complex...

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It was windy the day this was taken; after swaying with these things for a half dozen shots finally got this one.

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This is probably the most serendipitous photo I've ever taken. We were walking down a mountain path when my daughter backed away from the edge and shouted, "There's a bee!" As a younger girl she had a phobia about bees.

In reaction to her fear - which got on my nerves - I said to her, "Well, then, we must take a picture" in a mock suggestion that the moment must be documented. I swung the camera around and just snapped, without even framing a shot or taking care that the focus was right...or even seeing the "bee" for that matter!

It was only after seeing the shot in the viewfinder that I notice that the "bee" (actually a yellow jacket, I think) happened to be in the shot, and also happened to be in focus. After arriving home I printed an 8x10 and got some positive comments, but will always remember that it was pure luck that things fell into place...

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These lizards were everywhere, and they let you get pretty close before darting away. I zoomed in from a distance, which made depth of field more/less automatic.