Adlerography

Oh hi again,

Just a quick update to keep things clear.

Why ‘mid-way’? Two reasons.

The first! I am mid-way through posting shots from my Silk Road trip.  I’ve decided to extend the set a bit, from the originally promised three weeks, to three and a half!  That’s because this week I’ll only be able to post Monday through Wednesday (off for *another* trip, this time to a place called Wutaishan).  So, after one week of Xi’an photos, and a week of Xiahe photos, it’s time to head to Kashgar.  This week’s three photos were taken in the Kashgar old town, and next week’s five are from the livestock market.

And the second reason!  I’m more or less half way through my time in Beijing, which means I’m well on my way to finishing this whole crazy journey!  I won’t dwell on it here, but I just wanted to point out that I’m more than 70% of the way through, which means at some point the flow of photos will be affected in some way.

But until then, keep checking back!

Lots of <3 and thanks for your comments.

-D

Howdy do,

Everything Adlerography-related seems pretty stable right now. Flickr’s accessible, I have a good amount of pictures ready to show you, and more time than before to access the internet.

With all those stabilizing factors in mind, I’d like to lay out my game plan for the next few weeks!

It all starts with my favorite photos from my two-week trip along the Silk Road. I began in Beijing, and worked my way west: first to Xi’an, a brief stop in Lanzhou followed by a two-day stay in Xiahe, then several days traveling while stopping in Dunhuang, after that a flight over to Kashgar, then back to Urumqi and finally a return flight back to Beijing. These should all be fairly easy to find on a map!

The three most photogenic places were Xi’an, Xiahe, and Kashgar. Thus, for the next three weeks I will have week-long sets of photos from each! It’ll follow the order of my progress on the road, so this week it’s Xi’an.

Beijing has also given me some good photo ops, and this weekend I’m going to spend the night on the great wall, so you can look forward to shots from those places once the Silk Road series is through!

Thanks for coming!

-Daniel

Good news! I’m back from the Silk Road, all in one piece, with some good photos in hand.  Now that I seem to be uploading pictures without much hassle, this week I’ll get through a few of the Beijing ones I had saved up, and start posting Silk Road pictures next week.

Not much else to report, except that I’m really glad to be getting the Adlerography ball rolling again.  Cross fingers that nothing else gets in the way!

<3,

Daniel

To those who chance a look at the blog page-

As I write this, I am in the midst of my final day in Taiwan. By tomorrow evening, I will be in a new setting- Beijing.

I can’t yet forsee how busy I will be with new adjustments, but I am going to try my hardest to keep the photos up-to-date with the changes. So, by Monday, I hope to have begun an exciting new series of images!

This means that for now, today’s photo (’Salt’) will be my final shot from Taiwan. (At least, the final one synchronous with my time here. I’ve got some decent shots left over that I might put up at some point. More to come on that project as it develops. )   No photo for Friday, as that’s my travel day.

Thanks to everyone for all of the encouragement so far, be it verbal or written, face-to-face or indirect. It’s meant a lot so far, and will be a strong motivator to keep trying in a new setting.

Take care,

-Daniel

And a good week to you all!

August is just around the corner, which means my travels are moving along at a good clip. Good news is the photos have been keeping up; I’ve actually now got a decent-sized backlog to fall back on.

Case in point: this week’s photos are all from a field trip I did about two weeks ago, to Taiwan’s Sun Moon Lake.  I would have made that a wikipedia link, except for we barely spent any time at the lake, instead spending our day at a bizarre ‘Taiwanese Aboriginal Culture Park’.  Tomorrow’s (U.S. Wednesday) photo is from that place, and will hopefully illustrate the disconnect between aboriginal culture and the park’s actual contents.

This week’s photos will have just a bit of a hiccup, as Thursday I’m off on an overnight trip to Ken-Ting, a far-south beach resort.  So only 4 photos this week,  and then the usual 5 next week.  There’s a good chance that coming batch will be from this last weekend’s trip to Tainan. How lucky I am to be seeing so much of the country!

Pleasure knowing you thus far,

-Daniel

Actually, it’s Taibei (Tai= prefix for major cities in Taiwan; Bei= north –> Taibei = Taiwan’s northern-most big city)

So

No photo updates for your Saturday morning

but I’ll be back on my Sunday afternoon

which will be your Sunday very early in the morning

so I’ll have something up for you later on your Sunday morning

Let’s stop being in different time zones. yes/no ?

Oh, hello!

I have finally managed to get my computer connected to the network at Donghai, which is good news for the website.

The bad news is that with the amount of Chinese class and studying I have to do, on any given day I will have scant time to dedicate to photo-ing and website-ing.

Thus, my first few weeks of pictures (I’m going to try and update once a day), will be back-dated, from when I got here a week ago.

Of course, I’ll try my hardest to keep this thing going full-force! I’m so happy to have a web presence!

Thanks for coming,

Daniel