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Typical of how they sell fish in a market like this. Being an island, in Taiwan you can find fresh fish wherever you are.
As mentioned a couple of posts ago, I've grown skittish in swinging my big camera around and pointing at things, especially in a market environment. Not sure why this is so, maybe age has something to do with it. Regardless, I now go by a rule to refrain from shooting market displays unless I've bought something from the vendor. However for this one, not wanting to haul around a dead fish all day, I snapped it on the sly.
More typical of what you see rolling down the street. This is actually a pretty good setup, with very fresh vegetables neatly displayed...must have just opened for business.
I've gotten shy about when and in what direction I point my camera in places like these, so captured most while on the move.
...whereas this is much more typically what you'd see.
Must be very easy to set up shop like this...just roll your way to a good location and stand there. Again, with fancy wheels - that have brakes no less - and stainless fixture, this is one of the better ones...
With lighted sign and stainless fixtures, this is one of the fancier stalls on the street.
Close to where Chenjean's father and stepmother live is Zhuqi Township (located at 23.5015193 N,120.5644702 W). Whenever they go shopping - which is almost daily - they hop on the bus for the 15-minute ride to the market street. Completely free of tourists and set apart from the playgrounds of the younger generations, this is where it's easy to capture pics of undiluted Taiwanese culture.
This for a start, a very typical scene where food stalls line the sides of the street. More cropped-in shot below of the lady selling vegetables and her next-door neighbor:
Very similar to this post from Chenjean's village; the pattern in the lower branches here caught my attention.
And thus ends the series on our trip to the Taiping Suspension Bridge. Always something to see, even close to home.
Next stop - the Zhuqi market town, very close to Chenjean's home village, which will feature the smallest living human being I've ever seen...
See which number is askew? Didn't notice myself until post-capture. Loved the colors, and have recently gotten to playing with gradients in Photoshop.
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Got to playing with the sign in the picture below and ended up with this, featuring my favorite color combination.
Always thought it interesting that in Taiwan they've chosen to retain the more complicated writing system, while in mainland China, where it came from, they've converted to a simplified version. OK with me, as I think the more complex characters are more interesting to look at. And it's impressive to know that children in Taiwan have to learn several thousand even at the junior high level.
My nephew Terry did some roaming of his own and - ever the eagle eye for animal life, even in an urban setting - noticed these feral kittens. This is a very-cropped-in shot and, being hand-held with the D850, I was surprised at the level of detail captured (though it did require a bit of sharpening).
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