A Gorgeous Night in Dresden德勒斯登的繁華之夜

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德勒斯登市充滿了巴洛克式建築，因此又被稱為易北河上的佛羅倫斯。11月初的某日，我造訪了這座城市，不過當日陰雨綿綿的天氣讓我無法盡興的攝影，昏暗的光線、陰沈的天空不免令人感到有些鬱悶。然而，當夜晚降臨，市區裡的燈火亮起之後，夜裡的德勒斯登展現了另一股無與倫比的美！

Dresden is built by the beautiful Baroque architecture.  This is also the reason why Dresden is referred to the Florence on Elbe.  I visited the city in a day of early November. But unfortunately, it was a overcast and cloudy day. The gloomy light and sky made it be difficult to take nice photos.  I was a little bit disappointed by the bad weather.  However, when the light lit up the Dresden in evening, she seem to be much gorgeous than in the daytime!

A Fine day After Typhoon 雨過天晴的釣況

The typhoon brought a lot of rainfall and raised the stream.  The strong flow washed out the food, made fish in the stream was extreamly starveling.  Normally, the shaved chub always feed moss and aquatic insect on the bottom, but the huger pushed them to chased the artificial fly up to the surface.  

Wesley aimed the one of the biggest shaved chub as the target.  When he hooked an big shaved chub, I could see the rod was bended as perfect loop from  long distnace.  The fierce fight tied on several minutes, then I saw Wesley walk down to me with simle on his face.  I noticed that there was a very nice shaved chub in his net.  Nice fish should be recorded by well image.  So I took my Hasselblad camera shoot for Wesley and his new record.

在台灣，颱風常帶來豪雨及洪水，因此經過洪流後，矽藻便被泥砂刷得乾乾淨淨，於是讓苦花們飢腸轆轆，也讓人有機會以毛鉤在水表誘釣牠們。
這天，小左盯上了一尾大苦花，於是即便在一段距離外的我，都能看見他作合中魚時，釣竿完美的弧度。在經過幾分鐘的激烈纏鬥後，小左面帶笑容地走向我，這時我看見他的抄網裡超大苦花，也不由得嘖嘖稱奇！於是我趕緊拿起哈蘇相機，留下這一刻難得的紀錄。

備註：這尾苦花足足有36公分長，卻是用2號線重竿釣起。

Formosan pale chub painted by water color

I am inspired by James Prosek who is a talented artist, writer and fly angler. His beautiful works give me the idea of painting fish with water color. So I found out my painting tackles and tried to paint my favorite fish, Formosan pale chub.

About James Prosek: http://www.jamesprosek.com./index.html
Fish reference: http://natureflyanglers.blogspot.com/2008/02/formosan-pale-chub.html

York Minster 約克大教堂

旅遊英格蘭時，我們造訪了約克市，那是一個漂亮而且充滿人文氣息的小城市。約克大教堂是該城市的地標，高聳的樓塔讓人可以從大老遠即可瞧見，事實上，這座令人嘆為觀止的建築花了兩個世紀才完成，也是歐洲著名的大教堂之一。儘管拍攝時天氣不佳，烏雲罩頂，不過陰沈的天空卻讓畫面更有「英國味」呢！

While traveling in England, we visited York. York is a small loving city and full of Humanities. York Minster is the landmark of city, the high towers can be seen from far away. Actually, It spent two centuries to make York Minster had been done, and it is also one of the biggest and famous minster in Europe. Despite the weather was not good, dark clouds hang on the sky, hoverver, the dark sky made the picture be much "English style".

Where is trout? 鱒魚在哪兒

垂釣鱒魚的關鍵就在找上浮的魚訊 (rise)，但今天的上浮在哪兒呢？

Finding the rise is the key to fish the trout. But......where is the rise?

中魚! Strike

多年前的夏天，於某次坪林的生態調查活動時拍攝到這張照片。釣者輕巧地將毛鉤送到魚群的所在位置，就在這電光火石之間，一記準確的作合劃破平靜的水面；「喀嚓」一聲，攝影者將這瞬間紀錄為永恆。攝影者為了拍得此畫面，前後拍了約十張底片，而這是唯一較成功的一張。

This picture was taken during a field investigation in Pinglin which happened in serveral yaers ago, in summer. The angler cast the fly softly to the fish, all of sudden, a perfect strike broke the clam surface. The photographer snap the picture with a click, such moment had been recorded as forever. The photographer tried to take the picture for almost ten times, and this is the better one.