Why would the Artemis II astronauts rather carry a "ten-year-old camera," the D5, around the Moon? This is a history of honor about how Nikon engraved aerospace specifications into its soul and, amid rivals who only cared about making money, monopolized the galaxy through engineering pride.
Buying too small won't dry effectively, while buying too large wastes electricity. This guide breaks down the core formula for sizing a dehumidifier by floor area, achieving maximum moisture removal and energy savings.
Humidity plays a crucial role in indoor comfort and health. Levels that are too high or too low can cause discomfort and even health issues. So, **wha
Indoor relative humidity profoundly affects respiratory health, allergy severity, and daily comfort. J. LIN STUDIO breaks down the ideal 40%–60% target range, seasonal adjustment strategies, dehumidification tips, and hygrometer placement.
In the sweltering heat of summer, running the AC is essential. But facing surging tiered electricity rates can cause serious bill shock. Using a Class 1 energy-efficient inverter AC as a benchmark, we analyze 3 common operating strategies to find your ideal balance of cooling comfort and power savings.
When summer heatwaves hit Taiwan, turning on the air conditioner is bliss — until the Taiwan Power Company bill arrives. Choosing a Class 1 energy-saving inverter air conditioner is the smartest move. But do all Class 1 models perform equally? Here is a breakdown of CSPF efficiency ratings, electricity cost simulations, and top model recommendations.
In a digital age saturated with color images, black and white photography continues to attract enthusiasts who pursue depth and texture through its pure artistic expressiveness. We sincerely invite you to join the "**B&W Monochrome Photography Enthusiasts**" professional community and explore the unique charm of monochrome imagery together. ## Recommended Professional Black and White Photography Communities ### 1.
On the battlefields of Japan's Sengoku period, when two armies faced off, soldiers often did not rely on writing to tell friend from foe, but on the family crests on banners and armor — patterns like the three-leaf hollyhock, six coins, and quince crest gleaming through the dust, becoming the most direct language of identity. These visual symbols, now regarded as emblems of Japanese culture, actually originated in the official-rank costume system of China's Tang dynasty. Japan's 18th-century Teijō Zakki records that "the matter of crests was modeled on the Tang system with additions and omissions"...
Photography is a captivating blend of art and technique, but whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned shooter, challenges are part of the journey. Blur
Recently, the Presidential Office of the Republic of China has once again become the focus of public opinion over a particular political issue. Riding this wave of discussion, this work uses AI generation technology to fabricate a scene in which the "Tiananmen" plaque is hung on the Presidential Office, creating a realistic-style image full of a sense of historical dislocation in design. Amid the drizzly atmosphere, the solemn Presidential Office and the jarring "Tiananmen" sign form a strong contrast, prompting viewers to ponder the subtle tension between nationhood, regime, and historical memory.
Independent travel is an enriching yet costly journey of personal growth. Fortunately, with increasing global connectivity in recent years, many count
After less than two years of owning a sleek white GE double-door refrigerator, both door handles snapped in succession. Faced with the local distributor's outrageous NT$3,000 (approx. $100 USD) quote per handle, I bought replacement parts (model WR12X22148) from overseas for under $30 for a set of two shipped! Here is the step-by-step DIY replacement guide and a reflection on the Right to Repair.
Commercial studio shoots and macro still life require small apertures to maintain extremely deep depth of field, but what do you do when even the flash at maximum power is still underexposed? From large-format techniques of the film era, the reciprocity law and reciprocity law failure, to the linear accumulation advantage of digital sensors, this is an in-depth analysis of the multiplier conversion for multiple flash (Multiple Pop) and a practical guide to avoiding pitfalls.
What do you do when you forget to take food out of the microwave and it spoils and stinks? This article shares a real experience of rescuing a microwave from the stench of forgotten rotten meat, revealing a full guide to natural deodorizing and cleaning, including the lemon steam method, the baking soda neutralization method, and coffee grounds adsorption.
Black and white photography (commonly abbreviated B&W) is the origin point of the craft of photography, yet throughout the iterative evolution of color-rendering technologies to this day, it has always held a very important place in the hearts of photographers.
In recent years a trend of imitating Japanese design has sprung up on the island of Taiwan. Cafes, restaurants, guesthouses and other businesses deliberately mimic the Japanese style in their decor and even in the names they choose.
On Ten Ren's Tea's outer packaging boxes, the font explaining how to brew the tea is as tiny as those sneaky small-print clauses in movie contracts, and it's hard to find.
This article isn't about introducing hats — hats will have to wait for next time. Today I want to document the structural design of the ring of support paper that the manufacturer specially inserts on the inner side of the hat's headband.
The Japanese design asset site AIPICT has released 36 aesthetic assets that can be used free of charge without conditions. The themes cover three categories — clean and bright, horror atmosphere, and cyberpunk style — of research rooms and laboratory images, available for download by anyone needing them for game development or graphic design.
The campaign team's logo design — which was neither good-looking nor particularly ugly to begin with — was printed onto face masks, and then a group of people put them on and stood in front of the camera. It was disgust at its absolute peak.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II passed away on the 8th of this month at the venerable age of 96. From her accession in 1953 to now, more than 70 years, she became the longest-reigning female monarch in world history.
As only a few hours remain in ROC Year 110 (2021 AD) and ROC Year 111 (2022 AD) approaches, today I specially designed an image-based greeting card to celebrate Happy New Year. Although it's not yet the Year of the Tiger (yes, for some reason I have to explain the lunar-solar calendar time gap every year), I still used a tiger-skin (which also resembles a tiger's mouth) motif, incorporating the ROC Year 111 calendar numerals into this design...
Ever since I started writing articles, a bunch of typos and wrong meanings have often cropped up — usually only discovered when I go back to update the content a long time later: "Whoa, was I dozing off back then?"
Over the past few days, the hottest topic on social media and in the news has probably been the pig-qing-butterfly love triangle in the cross-strait entertainment world. Moved by the moment, I jotted down an impromptu poem for Chinese influencer Zhou Yangqing, Taiwanese entertainer Show Lo and Butterfly (Jian Kaile).
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei (MOCA Taipei) is the first museum in the Republic of China positioned to promote "contemporary art." Located in Taipei City, Taiwan, the museum was established on May 26, 2001.
At last month's Facebook F8 developer conference, CEO Mark Elliot Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would launch a brand-new version, "FB5." Besides thoroughly strengthening personal privacy protections, it also aims to shake off the company's long string of negative news through a completely new interface design.
The New York Institute of Photography (NYIP), founded in 1910 in New York, USA, is a for-profit educational institution offering three basic courses to students who want to enter the photography field: the Professional Photography Course, the Photoshop Course, and the Fundamentals of Digital Photography.
To promote accessible web design, the W3C published WCAG, which sets out a framework for the readability of color schemes. Through contrast checking, you can easily calculate the contrast score between background color and text color, thereby judging whether a web page is easy to read.
Today on Facebook I saw a photo of the newly elected Kaohsiung mayor Han Kuo-yu that almost made me spit out the coffee I was halfway through drinking. I don't know which clueless staffer used a smartphone to capture the mayor sleeping at the fruit and vegetable market, and lit it only with the phone's flash, making it look like a scene from the set of The Ring.
For today's Japanese design feature, we've chosen the snack packaging box of the original Momotaro "Kibidango" made by the traditional Japanese sweets shop "Koeido" in the Okayama and Kurashiki area.
A story outline (also called a story synopsis or content summary) is the advertising copy for the tens of thousands of words of your novel that you worked so hard to create. So after writing it, please check it carefully and revise it again and again. Those famous publishers will use these few hundred words to get a preliminary understanding of the uniqueness and excellence of your work, generating their initial urge to publish.
Parents interested in Japanese art, have you decided where to go during winter break? Starting the day after tomorrow, you can take your kids to the Southern Branch of the National Palace Museum in Chiayi! The Southern Branch of the National Palace Museum is launching a family-friendly discount event for the "Best of Japanese Art" special exhibition this winter break. From January 14 to February 12, as long as one parent buys one full-price package ticket, they can bring up to three students below junior high school age in for free. The Southern Branch invites the whole family to enjoy Japan's national treasures together.
Born in 1928, Japanese grandmother Kimiko Nishimoto first took up photography at the age of 74, and has now been creating continuously for 15 years. Her work spans art, daily life and more, and from these photographs you can see that the grandmother's heart is still full of colorful blossoms.
Google today unveiled a newly designed website logo and corporate identity system to keep pace with the arrival of the mobile generation. Through a sans-serif design, the Google wordmark becomes easier to recognize on small screens...
Have you ever noticed that there is a QR Code on McDonald's drink cups? Have you "even more" noticed that beside the QR Code, there is actually a little McDonald's secret hidden?
Every Apple product, including MacBooks and iPads, ships with two cute Apple stickers in the box. If it were up to you, where would you stick them?
Logitech's brand-new corporate identity and logo design reflect how Logitech will gradually transform into a design-driven company of an entirely new form in the new era...
"Doodle. Come" is a display space provided by the Vedfolnir website, letting art lovers freely come and doodle, unleashing all kinds of creativity to create doodles, Logo designs, and other creative works — a small event (which started out as just me having fun).
Words can warm the heart. The most powerful words need only a few characters. Do you have a story and words of your own? Please let us create together a micro-novel that moves everyone!!
The "Reject Ting Hsin" campaign stickers and badges organized by Vedfolnir — the campaign stickers, logo badges and other graphic design works listed here are provided free of charge for everyone to use without compensation. The content focuses on public issues such as environmental conservation and public safety, and can be cited directly on websites.
April Cherry Blossom — the name comes from the fact that cherry blossoms are in full bloom in many Northern Hemisphere countries. In Japan, for instance, March 15 to April 15 is the country's famous national cherry blossom festival. Because Japan has the special geography of being long and narrow from north to south, the Japanese designed a cherry blossom front system, so that as the weather warms, the blossoms gradually open from south to north...
A while ago a friend went online to find a photography teacher in the market, with the aim of learning photography. This was the first time the author learned that amateur photography enthusiasts also need to find a photography teacher. Setting aside art academy photography programs, which teach too broadly, too deeply, and too long, that is neither what he wants nor what he needs. But for general photography, is it really necessary to find a so-called "teacher"? At least among some photography enthusiasts the author knows...
This super rabbit that brings typhoons has been hailed by netizens as the second-strongest typhoon in 20 years. Don't be fooled by the cute name Typhoon Usagi — it is a thoroughbred rabbit monster...
After seeing many masters' great little planet (Little Planet) works, my hands got itchy and I dove in to try it myself. Thus this little-planet image-processing photo made from Fushoushan Farm was born. The image in the photo is Fushoushan Farm, where I randomly stayed with my friend Jinlong years ago. I cheekily used that old photo to play with today's little planet, and unexpectedly the image quality from back then was still good enough for me to work with extensively.
This photo was taken on a small path by the Tamsui (or Danshui) riverbank. At the tail end of summer in September, the clouds in the sky shifted into extraordinary beauty, and with the wild winds of early autumn, the giant trees along the whole road swayed and merged into one with the unfathomable clouds...
The National Police Agency of the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of China states that the police badge has a total of three design elements: the dove of peace, the national emblem, and the laurel.
The annual photography event, the Sony World Photography Award (SWPA), is now open for entries until January 4, 2013 (the professional competition until January 9). The categories open to amateurs or professionals include the amateur "Open," "Youth Award," and "3D Award," as well as the "Professional Competition."
In the 2012 Sony World Photography Awards open competition, the judges selected gold-medal-winning photos from as many as 110,000 entries from 171 countries, across categories including "Architecture," "Arts and Culture," "Enhanced," "Split Second," "Low Light," "Nature & Wildlife," "Panoramic," "People," "Smile," and "Travel."
The famous American film company Paramount Pictures is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. After previously releasing a limited-edition poster, this time it gathered as many as 116 stars and directors spanning multiple generations to shoot a "super group photo" together!
LCCNET recently partnered with the online job platform 104 on a project, and has been heavily advertising on TV. In the commercial the agency designed a new slogan that says: "One out of every two people successfully finds employment."
Today's sunset was beautiful, big and red, like the yolk of a large goose egg; but this was not yet the best sunset, because the clouds and mist over the sea destined that the moment the sun sank below the horizon, we who waited would have no chance to see it.
Foreign professional street photographer Eric Kim shares his photographic experience from recent years, summarized into a total of 100 photography tips.
Fog refers to a condensation of water vapor composed of small water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere near the Earth's surface, a common weather phenomenon. Tamsui especially, at each turn from late winter to early spring, is often shrouded in heavy fog for several days.
ARAKI Nobuyoshi (あらき のぶよし), a famous Japanese photographer and contemporary artist, was born in Minowa, Shitaya Ward, Tokyo City, Tokyo Prefecture. He is considered one of the most prolific artists in Japan and even the world. Many of his works deal with sexual themes, and some are even called pornographic images. His most popular photography publications include Sentimental Journey, Tokyo Lucky Hole, and Shino.
This time I entered the 2012 trademark Logo design and corporate identity design competition held by mainland China's Tmall Group. I spent about an hour on the design, and after submitting there was not a word of news. Today I saw new design content appear — it seems I was thrown in the trash can at the first stage (hot tea).
Thirty years ago, the United Nations stated that "a kiss is an internationally universal way of showing love, and also a sweet enjoyment." A Briton even later chose July 6 to establish a new holiday event: "International Kissing Day." Since the invention of photography, this intimate and private moment has finally had its own stage...
The British Daily Mail reported on January 8 that Russian online writer Lana Sator and her friends had secretly sneaked into a classified rocket factory in Moscow, capturing many breathtaking photographs and afterward boldly publishing these secret photos publicly on the internet.
Every year National Geographic (NG) holds its global photography contest, drawing enthusiastic entries from photographers around the world. At the tail end of 2011, the year's winning works were announced — each image a rare gem (blush).
Today I saw this photo of spider nests in trees on the National Geographic website, and a sense of awe at the natural world filled my heart.
Today I want to introduce two photographic works to everyone: one is "Bliss," the world's most popular photo, viewed by more than a billion people; the other is "Rhine II," the world's most expensive photo, worth 130 million.
The International Society of Professional Wedding Photographers (ISPWP) recently released two sets of data that let people understand the ideals and realities of this profession through how photographers plan their time.
An autumn image, the setting sun slanting down, a gentle breeze blowing; the overexposed light seems to want to tear the image apart, piercing through from the distant horizon.
May I ask you open your mind for me? May I ask you to open your heart to me? <img src="./Door-Blood-Light-20110928060810.jpg" alt="Door Blood Light" /> Heart's Door (Photo / Jinliang Lin)
Page after page of life — how many more times can we laugh proudly. A heart full of memories, yet it can be torn away so lightly and effortlessly.
Many writers do possess a gift for writing, but for most people, writing is a skill that can be learned through time and practice.
This article is a record of the author's reflections after reading Huang Yafei's article "Eyes and Photography," submitted to Artco magazine after visiting Japanese photographer Takashi Homma.
If you want to become a professional photographer, what jobs can you do? What things can you do? And how much income is there?
In the small town of Tamsui, climbing up the steps along Chongjian Old Street, many quaint old houses, rotted away, have long been forgotten by time.
People live amid the bustling, flourishing city. Yet their hearts are lonely.
On an evening in winter, I strolled leisurely along the streets of the small town of Tamsui. The clear, boundless sky carried a comfortable breeze blowing past. Passing by the gate of Aletheia University, I was unexpectedly distracted for a moment, and I crossed the empty campus gazing at the distant skyline.
The deep blue of summer fades into the red of autumn chrysanthemums. A gentle breeze, swaying softly. Children run freely through the alleys, and the pale colorful sun circles endlessly in the sky.
This article is a short piece I wrote in December of ROC Year 99, submitted to the "Writing Is Storytelling" essay contest organized by United Literature. The topic was "If I Were a Bird," and this piece won an Encouragement Award.
That's the light (points)! I once saw a car enthusiast's comment on an automotive fan forum: "It's precisely because our cars fall short that we must find ways to strengthen and make up for it..." — which struck a real chord with me.
I bought a relatively inexpensive and highly praised LAMY fountain pen — the Lamy Safari 2007 white limited edition — as my first proper fountain pen in life (the Genki mini fountain pen, after all, can only be a toy).
The design of the College of Life Sciences emblem at National Chung Hsing University adopts the most widely accepted circular form, expresses the concept of yin and yang duality through color, conveys the imagery of the origin of all things, and through the outer-ring and inner-circle design implies the close relationship between the university and the college.
From the appearance of this sword lion, one can see its righteous spirit of honoring the Way and upholding the law, keeping for people the constant protection of warding off evil, suppressing misfortune, and invoking blessings. Taking the homophone variant "heng" (horizontal) of the character "heng" (constant), it further explains that this sword lion not only possesses a finely carved wooden design, but also expresses the fairness and justice contained in the words of the ancient sage Xunzi in his "Discourse on Ritual": "When the balance is truly hung, one cannot deceive it with light or heavy."
