Blue Ridge Parkway

Blue Ridge Parkway is a very long road crossing Virginia State, North Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia State. I only drove a pretty small part of Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia this time. It's so beautiful to visit here in autumn. Most of the leaves have turned into yellow or red.

It's in Otter Peak Pond

There are many view spots along the road. The View is pretty nice.
It's in James River. Some people may fish there.
Finally, it's me! Though it looks similar, they are the only two picture of me in that day.

Windows XP desktop!

It's the golf ground in the school.
To some extent, it somehow looks like the default desktop of WinXP.
HA~~~
The leaves are turning red. Beautiful!~

Virginia Tech

Wordlessly.........I love this place. ^_^

Country Road

It's on my way to Catawba, VA. There's a very nice southern American food restaurant named "The Home Place". I love their fried chickens, mash potatoes, biscuit, and ice cream.

Every time when I go there, there are full of waiting people outside the restaurant. It's really amazingly delicious and beautiful.

While driving, you can also enjoy your driving on the beautiful country road.

The first view of Virginia Tech

I tried to choose more photos from my album, but unfortunately the others are terrible! So, the only one I can post is the Buruss Hall which is the administration of the school. All buses of Blacksburg will gather in front of this building, therefore, it can be said the center of the town.

Excited Football Game

Being a foreign student, sometimes I really don't understand why American students are so into football game. When I was an undergraduate student, I even don't know how many sport teams in my school. However, football game probably is the most important event in the town. Every time when the football game held in Blacksburg, students and alumni who come from everywhere gather together in the stadium. It's fun to watch the ball game with so many enthusiastic people, especially I'm with the majority. :p

I will try to learn the rules of football game ASAP.

Pandas Pond

It's only 20 minutes away from the school.
just a small lake~

Furnishing my Sweet Home

Renting a house in the U.S is very inconvenient, because it is empty inside. There are a lot of chores to do in order to furnish the home. To be honest, furnishing my own place is excited and full of pleasure, but it will be better if someone can do it for me. Beginning: totally chaos!

Started to furnish the home on the second day.

It looks great after the tiring day! However, it still looks something wrong!!
Finally, we realized that we still need a coffee table.
One weeks later, the coffee table delivered. The living room looks great!!

Arriving in Blacksburg - 39 hours flight time

I would like to share more about the first impression of blacksburg, but I'm too busy at school's assignments. There're still a bunch of photos not converted, not to say to write the blog. ~_~

I was so lucky to get an upgrade to Business Cabinet. A comfortable, joyful, and pleasure flight from Hong Kong to Chicago. However, my luck seems to ran out when I arrived in Chicago Airport. There was a strong thunder storm which cause hundreds of flight delayed or canceled at that day. My flight is no exception. I waited at the boarding gate for 4 hours, and another 4 hours in the plane. It is because thunder storm occurred again when my flight is ready to take off. We, therefore, were trapped in the plane, and not able to go anywhere.

It was a terrible experience. My total flight time to Roanoke is 39 hours.
Extremely TIRED!!

The last day in Taiwan - Excited + Nerves + Stressful

I want to shout out everything!!

WALL-E in Taipei (not composed!~)

WALL-E appears in Taipei !!

A lot of people ask me wheather this picture is composed? I have to say that WALL-E is 100% true, but I have adjusted the color tone of pcitures. WALL-E is now put in the XinYi district of Taipei as a huge advertisement board.

Since WALL-E plays a role of ruins cleaning robot in the movie, I, therefore decide to demonstrate the devasted style which better fit the thesis of the movie. First, When I took this picture, I found a under-constructed building as the background. Following, When I processed it in the computer, I increased more black color on WALL-E itself to make it looks like a worn out robot. And then, I decreased the color saturation of the whole picture to make it as devastation.

Sunset before the storm

There is a typhoon approaching Taiwan now.

Nobody likes typhoon because it usually brings heavy rain, servere destruction and expected rising of vegetable prices. However, the day before the typhoon hitting the land is very beautiful. The sky is clear and the red clouds looks like on fire. I don't know how it is made or why the serenity before storm is so beautiful, but I can tell you "grab your camera and go taking pictures".

The beautiful moment

Recently I began to bring my camera every time when I went out. However, carrying the heavy camera package around everyday does not make me become more productive. Sometimes I just carried the bag out and came back home even without opening it.

Maybe it's not about the prictures. I just want to capture more beautiful moment here before I leave the beautiful city - Taipei.

The best season for photography in Taiwan

Since I began to photo and pay more attention on weather changing, I have gradually figured out when is the best days for photography. Days from June to August are considered the best season for taking outdoor pictures in Taipei. In these days, the sky is astonishing blue and the air is especially clean that means the visible range is farer and more building would appear in your screen. If you want to take photos of the whole city, summer is definitely the best season for photography.

To explain this situation, we have to understand the direction of wind in East Asia first. The whole East Asia is under the monsoon(季風) area, it, therefore, changes the direction of wind season by season. In the summer, the wind is blown from southwest. On the other hand, the wind in winter is blown from northeast, which is accompanied with a lot of dust from China. Therefore, the whole winter of Taiwan is suffered from dust storm which makes the sky foggy and blurred just like everyday in BeiJing.

The unprofessional model

When I was the one who took charge of pressing the shutter, I always think the model have much to improve. However, when I become the one who stand in front of the camera, I feel awkward and uncomfortable. My smile is stiff and my body language is dull.

It's very different from shooting to being shot. Although I basically know how to full fill a good portrait, I just don't get used to face the camera. It seems that I still have a lot to improve....HAHA~~