The lavender farm in Taichung

This is a very well organize Lavender farm in Shinse-Taichung, Taiwan~

Check up the linkhttp://www.lavendercottage.com.tw/, its all in Chinese character :-p not sure google translator will work on the page.

The Lavender farm is very famous in Taichung but there is no direct public transport to the farm,

I almost cant make it when I took a bus to the small town close to the farm (>_<)

Thanks to google :-D, I found a transport + guide on the web- Mr.Teng 

( jan.teng.hsu@gmail.com / +886 910 956339 )

I was sooooo lucky that day Mr.Teng still have 1 slot for me to tour around (^__^), Mr. Teng is one of the guide in Shinse~ He is well train to bring people to tour around Shinse.

I've missed some places when he picked me at 1pm, normally the tour start at 10am~

Still very lucky (^___^) coz the next stop is the main place I wanted to visit

The Lavender farm.

At the entrance there is a Lavender mist ceremony to welcome all the guests~

just press the button, the mist ( water + lavender essence ) will spray out from the tree.....

SMELL GOOD!!! and refresh after 30min ride from the small town

The entrance fee is about 200NTD redeemable vouchers, you can spend that on souvenir or the very nice food in the restaurant OR!! The signature Lavender ice-cream 

The map and the redeemable vouchers are printed on the ticket:

4 NT50 vouchers 

I've missed the lunch time so the first thing I do is to fill my tummy full :-D, I knew the farm is not really big but I know I will be very excited so I need to EAT before I start to tour around

Start with fruit salad

Very creamy mushroom soup

Berries soda

Yeah, Its rice, very import to chinese

Grill Chicken, Super nice!!!

Wohoo, I'm full of energy to start the tour now~~
It's free and easy, Mr.Teng gave me 2.5hrs....
sound like its a small farm
BUT
its located on the hillside, mean you will take more energy to tour around the farm

now you know why I eat before tour

So happy to see the lavender, I can smell it even its not much

This is the wishing stamp machine

The wishing message on the hill top 

Lavender Ice cream!!!

Ice Gallery in Macau

This is my first time to take photo in the ice gallery.

It located in the fisherman jetty in Macau.

It is very challenging to me coz I live in southeast asia,in the beautiful tropical zone in Malaysia and I have never done ice and snow photography before.

It was a rush trip to get this shoot done,I was told to take the ice gallery only 3days before and I have no idea how does it look like and what the client need.

Inside the gallery is -25'c, thats the coolest temp. I ever experience before( Singapore and Malaysia is about 20'c to 35'c all year ). 

 It's before the gallery open to public so you can see the saw is still on the floor to touch up the art piece. 

The first photo I have to capture is the big arrangement at the entrance,

it a huge octopus~ I love the way they arrange the lighting but I hate the light will change the color is every 3second....

These is all blue octopus with a golden jewel box, looks like very cold and deep under the sea

I'm not sure what is that but I can just say its a flying angel with a music instrument. 

And here come the lovely penguins ~ 

I tried to changed it to black and white at the second photo and it made the art piece looks like crystal clear and big contrast to show the lines.

It reminded me the queen of Narnia~

This is my favorite art piece~ and this is the most difficult shoot.

The color lights change very fast and you have to get the correct timing to get the color that you want and look natural.

And the last photos are the photo I cant decide which is better~

Puppies~

Total are 6 of them.....cute right?~~

Those puppies are only 3weeks old~

I took the photo 3 days after they open their eye (^_^)

8 sorry if the flash is too strong to u dear puppies.

They are pure poodle breed

born the day before Chinese New Year

sound like they want to celebrate CNY with us

hahhahaha

But very pity the owner co he have to clean up the blood during CNY eve

Arhhhh~ I'm so sleepy

3Sec later~

zzzzz......

God, I pray to have great meal every day

and I promise that I will be a good puppy.

Its not easy to take photo for puppy

the move all the time

you have to focus very fast 

and capture the moment that you wants.

After I took the product shoot, of couse I take some times to capture the tired and sleepy puppies...