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Taiwan Travel: Art, Ritual & the Everyday (Visiting the Sea Goddess, Part 3 of 3)

12/31/2025

Welcome to the last part of this photo blog series, Taiwan Travel: Art, Ritual & the Everyday. If you are just starting here, I recommend scrolling below & starting at part 1!

And as promised, here is a map roundup of all the places I visited in Taiwan during this trip. I also included some places I visited during my last trip in 2018, but didn't get to visit them again this time. Make sure to check my notes for each location! :)

Nanfang’ao Jin’an Temple

Before the end of my trip, my friends asked me if there was anything else I wanted to do before I left. I asked them if they knew of any temples for the goddess Mazu. They asked how I knew about her, & I told them a good friend of mine told me she always wanted to visit a temple for Mazu & asked if I could go see one during my trip.

So we took a short road trip to the coastal town of Su’ao Township in Yilan County, Taiwan to visit the Nanfang’ao Jin’an Temple. By chance, I happened to be there during an annual event that’s scheduled according to the Lunar calendar, making the timing of my visit feel incredibly lucky.

From what one of my friends explained to me, this event is essentially folks bringing deities from their local temples to come pay their respects to the goddess Mazu, with some of the statues portrayed even being split incarnations from a Mazu incarnate. Usually, followers will take the split incarnation to a temple that offers the main Mazu shrine to pay their respects. Followers believe that the divine spirits live in these statues, but since the statues cannot move themselves physically, their followers will travel with them to visit Mazu.

I couldn't find the exact name of this event. Most of the events I read about online with a similar description say they usually take place in March/April, but this event I experience occurred in November. However, if you are interested in learning more, you can read about the various pilgrimages to Mazu that take place in Taiwan.

Who is Mazu & why is is she so special to the Taiwanese people? Mazu was a historical figure who was devoted to her coastal community & died trying to help save fishermen from a shipwreck. After her passing, she was deified. In Taiwan and across the diaspora, people venerate her as a sea goddess and ask for her protection and guidance, especially for those who live or work by the ocean.

With Su’ao Township home to the third-largest fishing community in Taiwan, it’s only natural that there are places of worship dedicated to Mazu. The Mazu shrines inside the temple were remarkable and really something to experience in person. There were three floors of shrines in total: one floor featuring a massive jade statue of Mazu, and the top floor showcasing a breathtaking golden Mazu.

Here are some photos from the ceremony below. Out of respect, I did not photograph the temple interior since there were people praying, but there are plenty of photos online at the links I provided above!

Images were photographed using my Nikon ZF & 24-70mm lens.

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Taiwan Travel: Art, Ritual & the Everyday (A day of Art & Culture, Part 2 of 3)

12/30/2025

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Welcome to part 2 of this photo blog series, Taiwan Travel: Art, Ritual & the Everyday. If you are just hopping on, I recommend scrolling to part 1 below!

National Center for Traditional Arts

We got to spend a day exploring local Taiwanese art & culture in Yilan County! We started off the cloudy day exploring the National Center for Traditional Arts. Visiting at this time of year (late October/early November) was such a difference from the last time I visited in 2018, which was in August, when it was humid & hot as hell. And this was certainly a big difference, after having been traveling in the Philippines (where it was still hot & humid) for a month before hitting Japan & Taiwan.

The National Center for Traditional Arts was fascinating. Not only was it surrounded by massive art sculptures, it was also filled with vintage & antique ephemera that celebrated the region’s heritage, along with shops & places of worship.

At the temples throughout the site, my friend taught me some of the practices & prayers. Since people were praying, I chose not to photograph the spaces out of respect. Instead, I focused mainly on the art & vintage culture of the complex.

Images were photographed using my Nikon ZF & 24-70mm lens.

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Misc photos from our phones:
LOL, my friend asked me if I wanted to wear some traditional Taiwanese cultural attire. I said sure! She took me to a vintage-forward photo studio located inside the National Center for Traditional Arts, where they dressed me up & did my hair. We were laughing when they did my hair, because they took so much longer on me. They said they wanted to go all out because it was my first time there. My head felt like it weighed 5 kilos heavier. Anyway, if you ever find yourself here, check out the Photo Studio of Youth. They lent us the clothes for the day, so we explored the whole property wearing these clothes, haha!

Luodong Cultural Working House

Next, we got to visit the Luodong Cultural Working House. Since rain had arrived, it was the perfect place to stop next because we got to be indoors, check out some of their art galleries & rotating exhibitions.

I love, love, looooove oil painting textures & of course had to get some close-ups.

Ending the Day

We ended our outings with some really amazing vegan Taiwanese food — actually, some of the best vegan food I've ever had in my life! Not only were the flavors very authentic, but the food was also very affordable & high quality. We were so impressed by the food, we actually ended up going to eat at this restaurant more than once during my trip.

Pictured below on the right is the owner of the restaurant & chef. I can't remember her name at the moment, but she started chatting with us because she wanted to know how we found out about the restaurant. We told her we happened to be driving by & saw their huge sign outside that said "plant-based restaurant", & we explained to her that it's my diet & I was curious about the restaurant.

We had a language barrier, but my friend was kind enough to translate between us so we could communicate. She asked if I'm vegan & I explained I'm not actually vegan, but have been eating a mainly vegan & vegetarian diet for a decade (over a decade now). We exchanged stories on why we've made these lifestyle choices for ourselves. She shared that her whole family is vegan & that she decided to change her diet, because at one point she was very ill, & changing her diet healed her. She then showed me some photos she keeps at the restaurant to share with folks, from the days she was once ill with lupus & other diseases.

As you can see from the very bad auto-translate below on her Facebook post, I also shared that bad health runs in my family as a result of poor dietary choices. And also because I just care about the environment & hate capitalism. I also shared with her how impressed I was with her food, how flavorful it was, how generous the portions were & how affordable the food was, & explained to her that vegan food in the US is very expensive & the quality isn't anywhere near as nice.

She said I was the first foreigner to visit her restaurant & asked if she could share about my visit on their Facebook page. I said sure! Her restaurant has over 10,000 followers on FB! So if you are on FB, make sure to give Hao Ma Plant-Based Restaurant a follow & definitely stop by for a visit if ever find yourself at Yilan County in Taiwan. And as you can see from the photo below, these were the portions!

To learn more about their story, visit their website. The website is not in English, but if you're on Google Chrome, it should give you the option to translate to your preferred language. I hope I can visit again one day & enjoy her amazing food again!

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Taiwan Travel: Art, Ritual & the Everyday (Looking Back & Looking Forward, Part 1 of 3)

12/30/2025

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I'd just arrived in Taiwan at this point. It's always been my dream to meet some capybaras. My friend helped make that dream come true & took me to go meet some, hehe. They were very cute & sweet, & their fur is very coarse. I even got to meet some babybaras. 🥲

If you ever find yourself in Yilan County, Taiwan, make sure to visit Bambi Land if you ever wanna meet some!

Images were photographed using my Nikon ZF & 24-70mm lens.

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This will be my last photo essay of the year, broken up into three parts.

Taiwan Travel: Art, Ritual & the Everyday is a series of photographs from my trip to Taiwan at the end of 2024. It’s taken me a while to get through these photos, as I’ve prioritised other projects, rest, & my well-being. However, after recently reviewing the photos for the first time since then, I’m so glad I got to them when I did. I’m in love with how they came out, & they brought back some wonderful memories of bonding & spending time with friends in Taiwan, whom I hadn’t seen since my last visit back in 2018.

This first part won’t be as image-heavy. If you’ve been keeping up with this space, you might already know that prior to going to Taiwan, I was traveling in the Philippines & Japan. After a month of doing photography in the Philippines, & overall dealing with some heavy emotions after having not visited the motherland since burying my dad in 2019, I was burnt out on photography. I didn’t take as many photos as I could have in Japan, & my will to shoot became even weaker once I arrived in Taiwan.

Regardless, it was lovely to reconnect with good friends I hadn’t seen in years. I’m eternally grateful to my friends, Animus & Angela, for spending time with me, & for their hospitality, generosity, & deep compassion. Every day was spent immersing ourselves in food, art, local culture, nature, or even the metaphysical. This time it wasn’t so much about experiencing tourism as it was about reconnecting & simply being together. Some of the best nights we spent were just drinking home-roasted coffee or local tea, reading tarot cards, playing Uno or Switch, & watching Taiwanese films. I also had some of the best vegan food of my life on this trip & even got to experience my first typhoon!😅

Overall, losing my job in September 2024 was one of the best things to ever happen to me. Although I’ve been navigating precarity in these last few months as the economy & job market have absolutely tanked, 2025 has been one of the best years of my life, & it’s due to not having to work, as sad as that may sound. I wish we could all experience this at some point in our lives. This year is the most productive I’ve ever been, & I’m so thankful for the opportunity to actually focus on my art practice & self-study. While I’ve been struggling to find stability, & sometimes struggling with my choices (navigating regret, wondering if I made the right decisions or not), I decided to be brave, take a risk, & focus on my self-growth above anything else. I’m also thankful to have had my last job, because the salary paid well enough that I was able to save, still live off that money, & be okay right now. Even though things have been uncertain, I have many things to be grateful for, & I'm looking forward to what is meant for me next.

Misc unedited photos from my phone:
Click on an image below to enlarge & for a lil' caption description about each one! I'll include a Google Map roundup with notes on each location in my last post in this series, but here are some of the places featured below:

Luodong Transfer Station, if you're ever interested in taking the bus to Yilan County from Taipei. It's an hour bus ride.
See You Around, coffee shop & photo lab in Yilan County, owned by my good friend & fellow photographer Animus
Vinyl Decision in Taipei, for the record collectors
Chia Te in Taipei, for their famous pineapple cakes

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Artronika at the DS Night Market

12/27/2025

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Back at the beginning of November, I got to check out one of Artronika's shows again. As some of you know, I've attended a couple of their events already & have had the opportunity to do some photography for them last year.

This time, I got to check them out at the DS Night Market! I went to the night market once before, back when they were still located at Lax-C. Now they've relocated to the Chinatown Plaza & it seems like a great location for them. More foot traffic, more visibility, space, & also helps bring a little more life back to Chinatown. LA's Chinatown has seemed dead these days, among other underlying issues of gentrification that exist in Chinatown as well. With the cost of housing skyrocketing across LA County, we have vacant "luxury" apartments in Chinatown adjacent to small 1-bedroom apartments cramped with low-income Chinese seniors struggling to get by & survive — especially in Chinatown, where there are no grocery stores within walking distance. I often find myself riding the bus among Chinatown seniors on their way to Super King by our house, which is already nearly 4 miles away from Chinatown.

That aside, it's nice to see community coming together in Chinatown again, united by art, music & the mouth-watering aromas of Thai street food — arguably some of the best I've had in ages, because the Thai food in Northeast LA sucks. 💀

Anyways, I'm not a food critic. I'm here to share some photography! I published a few videos on my YouTube channel as well. Check out my Artronika playlist.

Unless otherwise stated, photos were created with my Nikon ZF, a 24-70mm lens & Lightpix Labs Flashq Q20ii.

If interested in event photography, please send me an email!

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A few misc photos to start, haha. The top 4 were made using a Pocket Dispo lens.

Below, we have Artronika’s Executive Director, Ireesh Lal, playing jazz trumpet over his DJ mixes of world music, with a focus on South Asian sounds. Neel Agrawal joined on tabla and Indian percussion, while artist Norton Wisdom painted live on a fiberglass canvas. Flyght Club also joined the lineup, performing a few of his original tracks.

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If you've read this far, thank you! Please feel free to share your thoughts or any questions in the comments.

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Nütt at Cypress Park Branch Library (Videos)

12/16/2025

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I can't embed videos into a post if there's too many photos. Here's some videos I took at the show that I posted on my YouTube channel. In case you missed the photos from the show, keep scrolling down, or you can view them here. Videos were also filmed with my Nikon ZF & Pocket Dispo.

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Nütt at Cypress Park Branch Library (Photos)

12/16/2025

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Last Saturday, December 13, I got to check out a photo zine pop-up & punk show at our local library in Cypress Park, Northeast Los Angeles. I grew up in LA, but we've lived in CP for 10 years now, & despite the rapid gentrification happening in our neighborhoods, we love NELA for its unique offerings like these.

I got to reconnect with my friend Valerie J. Bower, whom I haven't seen since before the pandemic. Her photography is not only an inspiration to me, but her hard-working ethic truly shines through, & it's just cool to know another Filipina-American artist with similar interests as me (photography & underground music). She even gifted me a signed copy of one of her zines! Such an honor to add to my collection. I've been wanting to make another photo zine for years, but I struggle with getting myself organised. 🥴

After the show, we got some free zines from Razorcake & some printed media from the UCLA Library Punk Collective. Then I went into the library to check out some DVDs. With the way streaming has been going (both video & music), I've been trying to beef up my record collection, have started getting into collecting cassettes (more affordable), & we started buying DVDs. On occasion, we'll walk to the library to see what DVDs they currently have on rotation, too. Support your local library! And I hope one day the library will respond to me when I've asked them about doing programming there, too. 😅

Anyways, here are a few photos I made with my Nikon ZF & Pocket Dispo lens. These are not intended to be artistic, per se, or professionally packaged, just made for fun. :)

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Final Assignment at GCC

12/14/2025

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To see a full roundup of the photo assignments I submitted for my recent time at Glendale Community College, visit the Nica Goes [Back] to College tag! Start at the bottom of the series to see my progress in the order they happened. 🥹

For our final assignment, we were given 2 choices: either create a magazine spread with a front-center-back cover spread, or 3 images for an Instagram takeover for a photo account you follow. I decided to go with the magazine spread.

At the beginning of the semester, we were asked to share a magazine we liked that uses lighting in the photography, but wasn't specifically a photo magazine. I submitted Never Too Small's magazine for my entry. I am obsessed with their documentary series! I LOVE architecture & interior design, & it's so relaxing for me to watch.

For the final, we were asked to create a spread as if we were submitting photography for the fav magazine we submitted at the beginning of the semester (or another magazine). Instead of making a pseudo-photo submission for Never Too Small, I decided to make up my own pretend magazine called SMALL SPACE STILLS. Hell, I night even make this into an actual series one day?!

Featured in my photographs are my artist neighbors, Clare & Andres of Cypress Park's Arvia Projects (plus their soon-to-be little one). The focus on my pretend magazine was to photograph working class artists within their homes, particularly small, modest homes. Unlike the Never too Small series, I didn't want to focus on homes that were overly curated by interior designers & architects for people who have money to blow on those types of services. I wanted to focus on home spaces by artists that were decorated & designed by them. I didn't want "aesthetic" homes or the perception of wealth — just regular creatives in their spaces.

Here was my submission for the front cover, center spread & back cover. All photos were created with my Nikon ZF & 24-70mm lens. All photos used Paul C. Buff strobes.

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Front cover, center spread, back cover composite:

Cover Photo with & without Text + BTS (for Fun):

For this photo I used 1 Paul C. Buff strobe with a softbox attachment, another strobe for foreground fill with a 20 grid attached, & 1 white fill card camera right (which I just bought from the $1 Tree!).

Center Spread Collaged with back cover detail:

Similar lighting technique with the cover photo: 1 strobe with a softbox attachment + another strobe for foreground fill with a 20 grid attached.

Center spread main photo by itself + full back cover photo:

Back cover photo used 1 strobe with a softbox attachment. This one was particularly hard to light because not only was I trying to light a window so the ambient light wasn't blown out, using the strobe only for fill, but the room was small & I was limited on where I could place the strobe. The limitation in space also made it harder for me to control the light. Even with the strobe set at the lowest power, the light was just bouncing off every surface. Even though I didn't get any particular feedback on this during our critique, I personally feel that the photo is over lit, but I did my best with what I had. I'm still learning, after all. Architectural & interior design photographers truly make it look so effortless & easy! I hope I get to that point someday.

In the end, I got great feedback on my final, aside from some minor lighting adjustments in the center spread, that I was advised to just edit out in Lightroom this time, but definitely be more mindful of in the future. Of course we can fix anything in post these days, but the idea is that we are learning to practice these lighting exercises & create the best images possible on-camera. I guess I just get a little nervous when I'm working with models because I'm still so slow & I feel bad taking up all their time. 😅

Overall, I can't believe this is the end of my advanced lighting class at GCC! I also found out my instructor was retiring from teaching & I feel fortunate for the timing for me to be able to take this class. He was a photographer I got to work with during our time working together at Metro Art. Back then he told me he taught lighting at GCC, but with full time work on my hands at the time, I wasn't able to take it. Currently being underemployed gave me the flexibility to pursue more of my creative growth this year, & while it has been so difficult to regain stability again, I am so happy for everything I've learnt & accomplished this year with my photography. I've truly never felt more motivated & accomplished in a very long time.

And with everything I've learnt in this lighting class over just 1 semester, I'm pissed at the thousands of dollars I wasted on a photo degree at art school, where I learnt fuck all in 4 years. (To be fair, I was too immature to attend college at the time & I was not ready at all. I wished waiting until I was older were an option.) Aside from simple studio lighting techniques we learnt at art school, we did not learn anything I learnt in just these 16 weeks alone at community college. Art school was the biggest scam of the 2010s & sometimes I wish I didn't go to college, but that's a rant for another day...

If you made it this far, thank you for checking out my blog! I don't know if anyone actually reads this or cares, but it's nice to have a space of my own & thank you for sharing it with me. Please feel free to share your thoughts or any questions in the comments.

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9th Assignment at GCC

12/14/2025

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Our 9th assignment for my advanced photo lighting class was intended to be a portrait diptych. There were some parameters for the assignment, but of course, I broke the rules, haha! However, we were given the freedom to use any technique we learnt in the class so far. So I decided to play with the lighting effects we practiced in the Blur/Sharp assignment. I loved learning that technique so much, & I just wanted another reason to play with it again!

Here is the diptych as a single composite (top), followed by the 2 image files separately (middle). Later, I decided to collage the images together in Photoshop & I wrote a little haiku to accompany it (bottom). More explanation on the concept at the bottom — keep reading!

I'm also planning to make the photo collage into a risograph print. Comment below if you're interested in buying one later! They'll likely be available in the new year (after I wrap up other projects).

Photos were made with my Nikon ZF, a 24-70mm lens, a Paul C. Buff strobe with a 20 grid attached, & a red bike light.

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Diptych composite:

Individual image files:

Collage + Haiku

The parameters for this assignment required that we make 2 photos in the same orientation (either both portrait or both landscape). Originally, I'd played with cropping the left image, but the full image just didn't look right cropped — it needed to be the full thing. And the other images photographed in portrait orientation just weren't as dynamic with the lighting. SO, all that to say, I decided to break that requirement, cuz fuck it. As far as portrait goes, I decided to be more abstract with my interpretation of what a portrait looks like, instead of just creating a standard portrait of someone's face.

Inspiration: These flowers are marigolds I'd planted from seeds at the beginning of summer. The whole time, I was hoping they'd be ready in time for Day of the Dead this year (Araw ng mga Patay/Undas/Dia de los Muertos). I spent so much time caring for & tending to them. Lucky for me, they were ready in time & it felt like such a blessing to be able to spend so much time with them & have them finally say hello. When I photographed them, they were in the stage of transitioning out & I wanted to document them before their time with us was up. The red light blurs kind of conveys an otherworldly/metaphysical presence.

Process: As you can see in the BTS photos, I used a single strobe for both images (fired at the lowest power) as well as a red bike light (set at the highest brightness). I strapped the bike light onto the tripod for the flower photo & onto the railing for the hand photo. I used a long exposure, set the camera to self-timer & set the shutter to fire 5x in a row. To get the red blur effect on the flower bush, I shook the bush as the strobe & camera shutter both fired. Let me tell you, having the camera create 5 exposures in a row was a genius move, cuz I had various options to choose from later! Then, for the hand image, my partner was kind enough to let me use his hand to fill in as I manually focused the lens, & he shook the bush as I posed my hand in front of the camera. Totally not intentional either, the white flower just happened to land perfectly in the frame & it was then that I knew that was the composition I was gonna go with!

BTS/PROCESS:

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5th-8th Assignments at GCC

12/7/2025

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It's been a while since I've updated this space on the photo assignments I've been working on in my advanced lighting class at Glendale Community College!

These photos haven't been my favorite I've produced for the class & I don't think they're my best work, but I want to share the process of what I've been learning & the attempts I've been making to further improve & elevate my photography skills. Not everything I share will always be perfect & polished, but even after nearly 20 years doing photography, I'm still always in a constant state of practicing & learning, & I just want to share this for anyone who's ever feeling discouraged, anyone who's new to photography, or might be considering getting into it.

Below, I am sharing assignments 5-8, with the top being the most recent assignments. All photos were made with my Nikon ZF & a 24-70mm lens.

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Assignment 8:
Inside Out/ Favorite Window

We learnt how to use flash fill for lighting interiors with windows, without washing out the ambient light coming in from the windows! Of course, I chose the hardest room in our house to photograph: our bathroom. It very small & cramped for all the photography & lighting equipment, making it very difficult to control the light. However, my instructor said considering how small the room was & the risk I had of light bouncing off the tiles, he said I did a decent job of not making the photo look over-lit! I used one Paul C. Buff strobe with a grid attached.

He also asked us to show what the photos looked like when we bracketed with the shutter speed, so that's shown below in the little screenshot thumbnail gallery I made from Lightroom.

And for those of you who don't know, I'm obsessed with the documentary series Never Too Small (NTS). Haha! More on this again later.

Assignment 7:
Blur/Sharp

We learnt how to light the background with continuous lighting & strobe for the model (or subject matter). For the background, I used an old shower curtain, which was not quite high contrast enough. I used a red gel on a continuous light to light the background, plus a ProFoto strobe.

The background lighting on the first 2 aren't quite right, so I doubled up the red gel & added a neutral density (ND) grey gel to make the red more intense.

I used a long exposure & added movement to the photos to create the blur effects as the stobe fired. Shoutout to my classmate, Ani, for being a stellar model. :)

Assignment 6:
Flashlight Portrait

Introducing our old ass teddy bear, Grandpa Bear, AKA GB or Gorilla Biscuits. Instead of using a person as my model, poor GB was subject to another one of our games, haha! I photographed this at a long exposure on bulb, I think for 10 seconds. My partner, AKA best assistant in the world, used a white bike light to light GB, then I went in with a red bike light to create the lasso effect. When I'd done this assignment, we were just in the process of rewatching Titans on HBO, & I was feeling inspired by Wonder Girl's lasso!

Assignment 5:
Flash Fill with Portrait

We were prompted to create this series of portraits, documenting the different effects of strobe lighting at different angles, using white fill cards to add fill to the model, or using a second strobe to add additional fill. Can you spot the differences?

I used Paul C. Buff strobes for these.

Shoutout to our class teaching assistant for modeling for me & also giving me pointers during the session!

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Taiwan Travel: Art, Ritual & the Everyday (Visiting the Sea Goddess, Part 3 of 3)

Nanfang’ao Jin’an Temple

Taiwan Travel: Art, Ritual & the Everyday (A day of Art & Culture, Part 2 of 3)

National Center for Traditional Arts

Luodong Cultural Working House

Ending the Day

Taiwan Travel: Art, Ritual & the Everyday (Looking Back & Looking Forward, Part 1 of 3)

Artronika at the DS Night Market

Nütt at Cypress Park Branch Library (Videos)

Nütt at Cypress Park Branch Library (Photos)

Final Assignment at GCC

Front cover, center spread, back cover composite:

Cover Photo with & without Text + BTS (for Fun):

Center Spread Collaged with back cover detail:

Center spread main photo by itself + full back cover photo:

9th Assignment at GCC

Diptych composite:

Individual image files:

Collage + Haiku

BTS/PROCESS:

5th-8th Assignments at GCC

Assignment 8:
Inside Out/ Favorite Window

Assignment 7:
Blur/Sharp

Assignment 6:
Flashlight Portrait

Assignment 5:
Flash Fill with Portrait

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Nanfang’ao Jin’an Temple

National Center for Traditional Arts

Luodong Cultural Working House

Ending the Day

Front cover, center spread, back cover composite:

Cover Photo with & without Text + BTS (for Fun):

Center Spread Collaged with back cover detail:

Center spread main photo by itself + full back cover photo:

Diptych composite:

Individual image files:

Collage + Haiku

BTS/PROCESS:

Assignment 8:​Inside Out/ Favorite Window

Assignment 7:​Blur/Sharp

Assignment 6:​Flashlight Portrait

Assignment 5:​Flash Fill with Portrait

NICA AQUINO

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Assignment 8:
Inside Out/ Favorite Window

Assignment 7:
Blur/Sharp

Assignment 6:
Flashlight Portrait

Assignment 5:
Flash Fill with Portrait