Taiwan Photographs

I was walking by an old farmhouse in southern Taiwan and noticed no one was...

This fellow is a calligrapher and scholar. He works in a very old style raised-floor...

Families leave edible offerings on a temple table in Keelung, Taiwan....

A new year decoration at a Keelung temple....

The wooden half moon pieces are like dice. They are thrown on the floor of...

On the walls of a large temple in Taipei yellow lanterns and yellow flowers pile...

A fortune teller consults a divination book to assit him in providing a woman her...

Music is a constant soundtrack for Temples. This player uses the classic reed horn. He...

The family of the deceased carry a casket out to the cemetery. They wear rough...

During the lantern festival in Lugan a temple's courtyard becomes a gallery for bamboo and...

Kids play soccer in a temple hall in Taiwan....

The family of a deceased person, probably of some status, gather around a pile of...

A symbol of purity, the lotus flower blooms above the mud of a stagnant pond,...

A small procession of banners leads a family of mourners out to their family plot...

A traditional Chinese herb shop sells medicines. These can be dried herbs, or animal parts,...

I took this photo of a guy flagellating himself during a new year's parade in...

In the southern city of Koashung in Taiwan, an image of the black godess Matsu....

This tiny neighborhood shrine in Taipei was filled with many new years offering, including the...

In Taiwan, as in many Asia countries, water buffalo are tractors, used to pull a...

Inside, looking up into an ornately painting ceiling in a temple in Taiwan....

Traveling throughout the countryside, Chinese opera troupes perform outdoors in makeshift stages. This one is...

Long thin purple eggplants are hauled in from small farms on the side baskets of...

In the early 1970s, farmers in the south of Taiwan thresh and winnow rice by...

In Keelung, Taiwan tall gods parade through the streets stepping through the confetti of exploded...