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textures and scenes from tainan

I love when I position my camera for a snap, the subject responds positively like this:

photo of a cyclist unexpectedly posing for me

My partner calls Tainan the most aesthetic city for our trip. It is filled with old things and textures, the opposite of our home country. Because Singapore is always changing, I end up craving for old things.

photo of a rustic hair salon

In most cities skyscrapers are everywhere, so it is rare to see the blue sky like this – it reminds me of San Francisco:

photo of a random street in tainan
photo of outdoor seating at a cafe
photo of the cafe owner's dog
photo of a random window with lanterns

One night the winding roads led us to stumbling across two open-air activities: one a traditional opera, the other was playing Ip Man 3 on a projector screen. I couldn’t capture a wide enough angle, but behind me there were more people sitting on their motorbikes watching the movie, some shop owners were watching it even from a far distance.

We don’t experience these in Singapore anymore.

photo of people watching opera
photo of people watching Ip Man 3 in open-air

Sometimes I notice an interesting scene so I raise my phone to take a very quick photo, only to realise much later that somebody was actually smiling at me:

photo of someone smiling at my camera when I took a photo of a doorway
photo of a street with pretty lanterns

I like stumbling upon unexpected scenes, things that remind me that the spectrum of human creativity is so wide.

photo of a window with a sign saying "cold beer here!"

We had only spent 2 nights in Tainan and had to leave because the accommodation prices for the approaching weekend were horrendous, but we were very glad to have made an unexpected stop here.

photo of the train in tainan

I find the camera such a wonderful tool, because it allows me to record and store snippets of my observations, and share them here with you.

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