If the biggest China Town is not locates in vancouver, then Vancouver itself is actually the biggest China Town in N. America. People who have visited Vancouver would agree that Vancouver is somehow too Chinese. In such a "Chinese" place, Lunar New Year is celebrated extensively, for sure. With Canadian do the dragon dance, or even native people do their drums. Year, all sort of east meet west things. At the same time, old Chinese do their MJ in the clubs as all the other Chinese do in the rest of the world. Lion dances to every shops and gets the red pocket, just ever more Chinese than in HK. To me, this is kind of bizarre, but fun. You have to be there, and just feel it. E-Mail

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P.S. I have some really good time in this event, which is not usual in my experiences. First of all, this is the first time I go to take pictures with my friend. Second, I can discuss the pictures with my friend afterward and enjoy a different point of view of the same event. Here, I have to introduce my new friend, Wingman. I know him from the newsgroup and we share lots of comments and opinions of our pictures. Well, this is not precise; actually, he teaches me lots of techniques and experiences, which is so beneficial to me. He also teaches me lots of new concepts, especially the operation of photoshop and scanner. Thank you, Wingman. ^.^

In this assignment, I start to feel that I have a good confidence in using B/W film for event pictures. This is because all my B/W work pretty well (about half), but almost none of my colour print is satisfactory. That's why you can't see any colour prints in this assignment. In addition, because the scanner can't show as much details as print paper, the effect of many pictures are actually poor than it should be. A simple example is that the facial expression of the audience in the background are almost completely missing. While their facial expression is the most interesting part in the pictures.

Taking pictures in this event is kind of punishing. Objects are often moving fast and so close to the camera, which makes a 28mm lens totally handicap. On the other hand, while taking some real tele-photography (taking pictures across the street for example), my 200mm is just too short to reach. >.< . After this event, I really think that I should buy that 17mm-35mm 2.8L …

At last, I hope you can find a different point of view in Chinese new year from my pictures. Just something different, because this is what special in Vancouver.

Pictures print with Kodak TMAX 400. Print on Ilford Multigrade IV paper. All pictures were taken by Canon Eos50e or Eos 100; with Tamron 28mm-200mm f4.0-5.6 or Canon 28mm-200mm f2.8. AV mode.

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