Taiwan Photographs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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