Orchid Island / Pongso no Tao / 蘭嶼 / Taiwan

This place is absolutely my favorite in Taiwan. Very peaceful.

MORE PICTURES ARE POSTED HERE:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lburkeimages/sets/72157624347024157/

Yes, I am still posting!!

Hi everyone!

Sorry for the long delay between posts. The truth is boring so I will just get to the point, there are too many new pics to post on this site. Please go to my Flickr page to see the newest photos.

Joy Students and Staff go here to see our school photos!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lburkeimages/sets/72157622343720666/

My main page is here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lburkeimages

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

A few scenes from the last month

A great morning view of the beautiful mountains in Guguan.

Sunset viewed from the Dongshir bike path.

Brick boy! A very cool art piece placed alongside a country road.

Heading into darkness ...

A bin of monkeys in Taipei.

A holy man shopping at the Shilin night market.

Insert yellow joke here......

A colourful fruit stand outside of a 7/11

This spider created a huge web amoungst the beetlenut trees.

I know this is just a drain... but there is something about the colours and textures that I like.

KTV!

The coolest gibbon in Taiwan.

Omelette anyone?

Tired mom.

Railway ties.

Cruising.

As the nightmarket is set up, the sun peacefully sets. I took this shot from my balcony.

There are a lot of unused items and artifacts around Taiwan. Sometimes if you look at them the right way they become beautiful.

The vine covered window. I feel a poem coming on...

Plums and the nice lady who sells them : Guguan

Birthday Fun in Kenting!

Mother's Day

Temple Celebration

If you are ever bored in Taiwan just follow the fireworks. On this evening I came across some sort of temple celebration near the industrial market in Dong Shir. Fireworks and music were blasting. Gifts and gods were flowing. A large group of people scurried around arranging what would be brought into the temple next. At first I wasn't sure if I was welcome there. Quickly though, people came over to me, took pictures with me and then graciously invited me to eat with them. I saw one of my newest and youngest students at the festival with her mom. They were very surprised to see me there with my camera. Emma's eyes followed me through crowd as I tried to capture what I was seeing, even though I really did not understand what was I was witnessing. I was a shy photographer that evening as I was quite adamant that I didn't make anyone uncomfortable during their time of worship. I didn't stay to eat, but I wish I did. The next day, one of the people that saw me at the temple the night before shouted at me as she passed by on her bike, " happy to see you"!

A rocking charity concert at 89 K held for a local sick child.