You’d never think there are many Baroque architecture style buildings but there are, particularly in the old Dadaucheng District in Taipei. Most of these building were built in the 1920’s, about 100 years ago as Baroque style structures were popular during the Japanese occupation period. […]
Dadaocheng Wharf thrived in earlier years as an entrepot for trade along the Tamsui River to downtown Taipei. Tea, cotton and silk textiles were among the main products bought and sold here, attracting trading companies from across the western world. Dadaocheng’s fortunes as a trading […]
While driving through Yangmingshan National Park near Taipei last week we came across several monkeys (Formosan Rock Macaques) along the roadsides.
Taiwan is famous of producing fine tea and I drink tea almost all day in Taiwan and US except a cup of coffee in the morning. You can find tea fields almost everywhere on the mountain sides near Taipei but to find a perfect one […]
This is an interesting picture after I had a chance to look at from the computer screen. Look closer the fish in the water – apparently it was too big for this night heron to handle!
I took these pictures of Taiwan Little Egrets at Dahu City Park of Taipei, Taiwan one morning. These beautiful egrets have such beautiful feathers and they stand out on the windy day. They reminded me the snowy egrets I saw and photographed at Bombay Hook […]
Last week I visited my hometown, Kaohsiung, Taiwan where I was born and grew up until finishing high school. I went to college in nearby town of Tainan and then came to the US for the graduate school and eventually settled down in US. Here […]
The art of this handmade Chinese umbrella came to Meinong, a small Hakka town in Southern Taiwan about 100 hundred years ago. A local businessman bought a whole oil-paper umbrella workshop in Guangdong and moved the activity, including the artisans, to Meinong. Oil-paper umbrellas were used […]
The City of Taipei is surrounded by many mountains, all within an hour drive via freeways and well maintained scenic mountain roads. However, without my local photo friends, I wouldn’t have found this perfect spot to witness and photograph the beauty of morning fog at […]
Greetings from Taipei – We arrived here on March 3 after almost a whole day of flight from DC (what a grueling long trip!). The weather is very nice here in the 60’s and 70’s, no snow like in Northeastern US. I walked to Bao-An […]
Stephen Hung Photography 