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Archive for September 2011

Phu Quoc Island, Vietnam

Posted on September 29, 2011, 12:22 am, by QT Luong, under Locations.
Last December, I visited Phu Quoc Island for a few days. Located in the Gulf of Thailand, south of the mainland Vietnam, the island is the largest in Vietnam, measuring 31 mi (50 km) long and 16 mi (25 km) wide. It is famous through Vietnam for its fishing industry, and in particular fish sauce, […]
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Cedar Grove, Kings Canyon National Park – the other Yosemite ?

Posted on September 21, 2011, 9:34 pm, by QT Luong, under Locations.
Kings Canyon National park was conceived by as a “wilderness park”, mostly free from development. There are only two sections accessible by car within the park, one around Grant Grove, the other in Cedar Grove. Both those sections are small: many visitors do not notice that shortly after Grant Grove, they exit the park, entering […]
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Catching a glimpse of the Na Pali Coast, Kauai

Posted on September 14, 2011, 9:38 am, by QT Luong, under Locations.
The Na Pali Coast, on the North Shore of Kauai has some of the most spectacular coastal scenery anywhere, with the the grandest fluted coastal cliffs in all the Hawaiian Islands. Because of its steepness the Na Pali Coast is entirely roadless. Besides boat and helicopter, the only way to see the Na Pali Coast […]
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Large Format photography in “Treasured Lands”

Posted on September 3, 2011, 2:52 pm, by QT Luong, under Esthetics.
In exactly one week, I will be giving a second lecture about “Treasured Lands”, the exhibition of my 58 images of the National Parks at the National Heritage Museum. Since in my first lecture, I talked quite a bit about large format photography, I won’t do it again in the new lecture, and instead focus […]
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