We haven’t been doing this for a very long time since the last travel photo quiz of China. I would love to have another quiz today. Look at the photo below. No single building in this row of houses is properly or identically aligned! They are either slanting outward, sideway or backward. The funny thing is all those windows are out of rectangular shape but they are still operable! I took this shot while we were walking by in the evening and being attracted by this scene and those colourful architecture.

Before I’m going to disclose or show the full size photo and story about it, wouldn’t it fun you guys tell me the answer of this travel photo quiz? Where in the world are these slanting buildings located? Let me know by commenting here and the correct answer will be the key for more photos and stories of these slanting building! – Travel Feeder, the ultimate travel photo blog

What are the lenses I normally bring along for travel? Readers following me on Travel Feeder should know that I love to have my favourite Nikkor 35mm f1.8 fast lens fitted on my D60 whenever I go travel. It gives me full flexibilities to shoot whatever scene under whatever ambient light, especially under low light conditions where fast lens is a must. However, for capturing full impact landscape photos, I would also bring along my Nikkor 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 lens. It allows me to capture reasonably wide angle of the scene when zoom it out to the widest view angle of 18mm (or 35mm film size equivalent of 27mm).

In fact, other than these 2 lenses, I have another lens which I lock it in my cupboard most of the time. I seldom bring it along on travel nor fit it to my DSLR, unless I go to the local gardens to shoot flowers. Which lens is it? Bingo! The Nikkor 55-200mm f4-5.6 ED lens. (“oh C’mon… it’s already stated in your title man! “)

Why I rarely use it? It’s comparatively small aperture limits its usage under many conditions of lighting. Unless there is sufficient natural sunlights or shooting a flash gun, this slow lens is not suitable to shoot people in actions or sports. As a rule of thumbs, I need shutter speed of at least 1/200s to avoid hand shake or blurry photo when shooting this lens at 200mm tele end. Of course, you still could crank up the ISO of your camera to 1600 or above and still able to have clean shot, if you are using D700 or D3 full frame camera.

However, if proper lighting given to the scene, this Nikkor 55-200mm could still be a stunner. Especially when shooting portrait or isolating objects, it can poduce super crisp photos with full impact and none distracted smooth creamy out-of-focus background. And I almost missed it until one day when I grabbed it over to the pool side and started taking some inspiring shots of my daughter, Chloe (see photo above). The above photo was shot with 1/200sec shutter speed, f4.8 Aperture and focal length of 105mm. Focal length of 105mm is ideal for or sometimes considered as portrait lens. In order to freeze Chloe’s motion, I set the sensor sensibility higher to ISO400 so I could shoot it with 1/200 seconds Shutter speed. What ‘s the result? A crisp and clean Chloe’s headshot with swimming pool background thrown out of focus completely. Isn’t it great for portrait? – Travel Feeder.

I just remember there is still a travel photo quiz running in Travel Feeder which I haven’t got the answer and I have also not giving out the answer! Sorry about that. You may still give a wild guess on it here…. while I’m writing something about it. Meanwhile, I’m showing this another travel photo quiz for you…. This time should be easier. I narrow it down a bit. This place is in China, somewhere….

Whoever can read the old chinese calligraphy on the arch considered a winner! And the prize would be…. the full story of this travel destination! In fact this is a quiz given to us by our tour leader from China and he even bet with us for the price of our full trip to China! Got it? There is another clue which could be found in the photo itself… – Travel Feeder.

I was digging out those old photos of mine to see how my old camera performed on all sort of scenery shot and I found this photo. Though it was three years back when I took this photo (or actually my wife took the shot behind me ), it is still beautiful to me. This shot was taken from a mountain top when we were enjoying the mountain breeze where we could overseeing the nice farms and villages at the hinterland. It was a sunny afternoon on top of the mountain with overcasting weather over some part of the farms down further away.

I’m going to write something on our trip there. Before that, it would be interesting to have a travel photo quiz on this: Where in the world do you think this love mountain is located? A little hints on this would be a famous hinterland on the western part of a world renown beach getaway. – Travel Feeder.

Do you feel it? I felt it since these last couple of days that Travel Feeder is getting a bit too grave in its writing. I sat down last night to have some periodic review of my own travel blog and found that I should revive it’s image a little bit to make it more fun for travelers. And it’s the whole purpose of vacation travelling anyway! So I’ve decided to add some travel fun here. Yu…Hoo… Com’on cheer up guys! Before I tell you the story straight away like what I’ve been doing, let’s start with this little photo quiz: GUESS WHERE IN THE WORLD THIS PHOTO IS SHOT? Hint: This is a popular travel site that I’ve been to, and the birds are the famous Rainbow Lorikeet.

This quiz is only last for 24 hours! So come on and make a wild guess by commenting to this little post HERE. Grand prize of 8D7N stay in Las Vegas, USA inclusive of return air ticket would be given away to whoever first with the correct answer! Prize presentation ceremony would be held in my ‘dream’….. ha ha ha

Anyway, the answer will be first announced in my next post RSS Feed. So subscribe as a reader NOW! And BIG BIG thanks for your participation!! See ya – Travel Feeder.