Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Pictures I took today


So this post is not the post I promised about the bees but I promise I am not a chronic liar. I just wanted to share these pictures I took today when I decided to take the day off to take care of my permit issue and ended up wandering around with a camera.                
       
These are pictures of a leftover display of lanterns from the Lantern Festival.  If you look closely you can see that they are decorated by local kids.




I love the vibrancy of the colors all together and I particularly liked the textures and colors of this lantern.  I was thinking that these pictures could make great desktop backgrounds.  What do you think?

Self-portrait shot, also I'm going to have this double as the picture of my new hair cut that I promised back in January.  


I'm not quite sure what this building is, but I found it while wandering Taipei's governmental area so I want to say it's something official.  I believe it is left over from the Japanese colonial period, as many Taiwanese governmental buildings are, you can tell by the psuedo-Western style architecture that the Japanese were fond of using during the Meiji and Taisho eras.  


Hope you enjoyed my endeavor into some photography!

4 comments:

Andre said...

isn't that the back entrance of the presidential palace?

davidc said...

i've enjoyed reading your blog...i had some questions i wanted to ask but couldnt find an email anywhere. mostly about living in taiwan and stuff.

StephanieAnn said...

oh is it? haha, i have no idea, I was totally lost when I took these two pictures!

Also thanks davidc, I'll try and figure out if there is some email thingy I can set up for this blog. I'd love to answer your questions.

Kapitan Ho said...

good shot!