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Hello Everybody! A lot of things happened within the last two weeks. Now I found some time to share a few things with you:


Music

I found a great place to practice drums. The music store where I bought my guitar offers a room with a drum set for 50 NTD per hour. That is about 1,25 EUR. Incredibly cheap! I try to go there two times a week to keep my level and have some fun! I am really happy I found this!

Taipei at it's best

Another thing I just discovered is Taipei. Yes I have been here now for almost three months and just now I discover Taipei's facets. This city is so amazing.

You can reach almost everything you want within one hour. If you want something historical, visit Dadaocheng, the part of the city where Taipei started growing. From there the aboriginal tribes sold their goods to China. This part has a lot of this feeling. I don't know how to describe this right. You feel like traveled back in time. Many old buildings, no tourism, a lot of old people selling food in small streets next to a primary school. An old temple between two old and cracked buildings. Strange and amazing at the same time.
You also can visit 228 Peace Park, which remembers one of the darkest pages of Taiwanese history. Right next to it there the Ximending area where you will find a mix of old architecture and modern buildings. Furthermore Ximending is called Taipei's Times Square. A lot of young people are around there and fancy stores. From tattoo to cinema and clothing, everything can be found there.
You also can visit Taipei 101, one of the tallest buildings in the world, walk five minutes and find yourself in 44 South Village (military dependants' village from the 1950s'). From there it is only 10-20 minutes of walking to enter Elephant mountain hiking path and enjoy fresh air and nature. And if you don't like hiking you can take a relaxing hot spring in Beitou or visit the National Palace Museum, which has a huge amount of ancient artifacts.

Every single spot you can reach within one hour from main station.


Photography





Last week I bought myself a Canon 70 D and found a new hobby. Photography.
This passion owes to my work in Topology. I traveled around and had to take pictures for the Facebook page. I often was discontent with my results and the way of me taking photos. So I started to make my pictures better by perspective and to do more than just snapshots. But I always thought of a real camera. So finally I decided to buy a DSLR.

Taking photos, going outside and let yourself inspire by the city, by everything around you, special shadows or landscapes is so fun. This is really relaxing and challenging. It is not easy to take a photo with a "wow" effect. And that is what makes it so exiting for me. This is a challenge and a distraction of my work. I can focus on something else and try to catch something special.

But before I got outside and took photos I had to get a bit of knowledge. I didn't know what the ISO exactly is and how to set the camera in the right way. The Internet is a beautiful thing at that point. On Youtube I found a nice photographer, Ben Jaworskyi, who shared some of his knowledge with entertainment. I just watched his videos and took some notes. Afterwards I just got outside and made my own experiences. Photography can be really nice but annoying as well. If you try to get a special picture but you don't get the right setting of the camera, the picture is blurred and you see it when you are at home because the cameras' display doesn't show the picture in detail.

All in all it is so much fun!

If you want to see some of my photos visit my Flickr:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/129881066@N03/




Comments

  1. hey lukas, good to read that you have bought your camera, do take and post more photos, let me know if you have questions on photography, and i'll see if i have the answers ready for you =) patrick - from singapore

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    1. Hi! Thanks!. I just posted a few new pictures on Flickr maybe you can check them out :)

      https://www.flickr.com/photos/129881066@N03/

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