tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-323108462011-04-22T11:12:14.115+08:00An experimental field which displays all my panorama pictures shot with X-pan II300-Rabbithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14181686646656962109noreply@blogger.comBlogger121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32310846.post-39914409056827429552007-07-11T14:47:00.000+08:002007-07-12T16:53:35.217+08:00

After lunch, I went to the concierge and asked where I could see traditional Holland windmills. They told me I could attend some planned tours. That's very bad advice because all those tours start in the morning. And then they told, alternatively, I could take a bus and go to Zaanse Schans, where there are quite a few windmills.So I walked to the Central Station, which is also the central station

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Another view of the canal.Then I decided to try to find Anne Franck's house, where Anne hided for two years and wrote her famous diary "Het Achterhuis" before being caught and killed in the concentration camp.A restaurant.This grocery store is probably asked too many times how to get to Anne's house, so they put a plate above the door to show the direction.Then I found a long line trying to get

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Finally I have some pictures from the Xpan again. This time it's what I shot when I went to Europe for business trip. I got a full day in Amsterdam (arriving at 7 in the morning). It's already the third time I visited Amsterdam: first time in Sep 2001 for honey moon, second time in Nov 2004 for business, and now again for business, too.I walked around the old town in the morning, and went out of

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Same trip as the New York one. Didn't have much time to take pictures in Boston and SF, though, because I got very limited free time there.Red ship in the Boston HarborBoston Harbor HotelDockominiumCity creviceHarbor at dawnBoatsMorning Boston (typical winter gray!)Harbor view from the hotelAnd then some pictures of San Francisco...View from the 40th floor of Mandarin OrientalPanorama viewBefore

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Some more pictures...Shot from 2nd floor of a Barnes & NobleAnd then I went downtown, planning to walk through the Brooklyn Bridge. KC (Deutsche Bank's analyst) and I took a taxi to Pace University...Lower Manhattan viewAnd we walked onto the famous bridge. Lots of people are walking or jogging on it.Looking south from the bridge, it's the WTC-less financial district.Lamp. I wonder if the little

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Thanks to Deutsche Bank, I was back to NY for the second time this year. Again I got a whole Sunday in Manhattan so I just strayed about shooting some pictures using my Xpan II. The film is Kodak 400UC, and I'm pretty happy with its color and fineness. And the speed is also suitable for a small-aperture camera like Xpan in hand-held situations.Manhattan in between Thanksgiving and Xmas is

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Some people name it "Treasurehill" as it is built on a hill. It is actually a very small village alongside the Hsin-tien River in Taipei. While just feet away from the boisterous business area of southern Taipei city, it is completely another world. The centre of the viliage is a Buddhism temple established some 300 years ago. The viliage became prosperous when KMT government retreated from the

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Built since 1847, the Lin Family Mansion and Garden is one of the most famous historical spot in Taipei area. The Lin family was among the richest family in Taiwan in late Ching Dynasty, who made a huge fortune by trading rice and salt. The mansion and garden's name, Lin "Ben Yuan," was not the name of a single person but the name of the Lin's business, edifying "indigenous to the origin." Total

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Some photos I took at or around National Taiwan University using Xpan II and 45/4 lens, on Kodak Tmax 100 film, as a composition drill...FlamegoldGrapefruits at "Welcome" supermarketLooking down the presidential palace from NTU hospitalBushesJapalura swinhonis Gunther on a Paper-bark treeIt's probably very stupid to shoot such small subject using a wide-angle lens and black-and-white film... :-(

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Bao-an Temple is one of the oldest temples in Taiwan. It was originally a wooden joss house from 1742, and then rebuilt in 1805 into a temple. The name Bao-an was given to "bao"-yu (meaning blessing, Deo gratias) Tung-"an" (a Chinese place where the founder of the temple was from). The temple shrines a Chinese doctor, Wu Tao, who was also born in Tung-an a thousand years ago (979 AC).The temple

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Located in central Taipei city, Hin-tien Temple is one of the biggest and most famous temples in northern Taiwan. It is not crowded by tourists, though, as it is not famed for age or its architecture; it was set up in 1968 with an elegant but primitive and unsophisticated style. It is always crowded by disciples who seek god's help on a variety of wishes, from peace, health, wealth, to career or

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It's the first time I used an X-pan II; I chose Fuji's Xtra 400 as it is a fine-grain, high-speed negative film that's probably most suitable for X-pan's low-speed lens (f4 45mm) which also often shows vegnetting.I haven't yet had much time to bring this new toy outside during the daytime, so I shot a lot of nightviews to test the lens' flare control by the way; that is probably a bad habit as

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