Dancer in front of Beiji Temple, Guiren District, Tainan City, Taiwan
Click on photo to go to my new blog for a post about some trials and tribulations of photographing these dancers for a Taiwan Review photo essay.
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Ten Drum Drummer drums in old warehouse of Ten Drum Culture Village
I’m Moving!
As promised here is the link to my new site. I will no longer be adding content to Lief in Taiwan, rather I will be updating and moving a lot of this content to my new blog — The Taiwan Photographer, come check it out!
Hope you like it!
My Son 2
I’ve hired a publicity/internet guru. Today he gave me some advice, “Don’t post portrait (vertically oriented photos) and keep your blog posts personal… but not too personal, like, don’t post about your kids and stuff.”
Good advice, but he isn’t a Dad.
On the same note, I’m moving. Not from Taiwan, but to a new domain! More news and link in next post.
New Taiwan Travel App — Taiwan for Culture Vultures
A new Taiwan Travel App from Gecko authored by the prolific and highly respected Taiwan writer, Steven Crook, has recently become available.
Taiwan for Culture Vultures Guide App
- Pingtung’s Ci Feng Temple 慈鳳宮
Steven recently told me he is excited about the app because he was able to delve into attractions and topics in much more depth and breadth than was possible for his traditional print guidebook — and that no guide book can, unless you want to carry a phone book-size guidebook in your bag! Many of the places he researched for the popular Bradt print guidebook that he was simply unable to include, as well as places that opened after its publication, are in this app.
- Yi Ming Hui (義民會) Guanjiang Shou painting his face.
Culture focus; temples, museums, architecture, gods, festivals, history…
As the title suggests, the book focuses on cultural attractions; temples, museums, architecture and the like. At $2.99 you can’t go wrong — buy it just to learn about Taiwan whether you live here, want to travel here or just want to learn about Taiwan’s art, culture and history from one of Taiwan’s most established travel writers. Also a writing coach, this erudite scribe is a pleasure to read; his writing is perceptive, sensitive, unbiased, and above all — knowledgeable.
Xinhua’s Jiajiang Troupe 新化吳敬堂的家將
Tainan’s Wujing Clan Hall Zhentou Troupe 台南市新化區鎮狩宮吳敬堂陣頭社 is a well known, award winning traditional folk arts troupe. I first read about them in my favorite Guanjiang Shou book (臺灣家將臉譜藝術：官將首卷) and have been Read the rest of this page »
