Mengjia Longshan Temple

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Did a solo photowalk this past weekend, stopped by Longshan (Dragon Mountain) Temple in western Taipei. Took the X-E1, XF18, XF35 and Samyang Fisheye. The temple was built in the 1700s and rebuilt over the years after various incidents.

On the weekends the temple is always busy with locals and a few tourist.
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Mengjia Longshan Temple by Photos By 夏天, on Flickr

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Mengjia Longshan Temple by Photos By 夏天, on Flickr

All of the roof surfaces are adorned with dragons.
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Mengjia Longshan Temple by Photos By 夏天, on Flickr

Side corridor. This was shot with the fisheye:
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Mengjia Longshan Temple by Photos By 夏天, on Flickr

A bunch of guys taking a break:
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Mengjia Longshan Temple by Photos By 夏天, on Flickr
 
Part of the front entrance
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Mengjia Longshan Temple by Photos By 夏天, on Flickr

Fortune box
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Mengjia Longshan Temple by Photos By 夏天, on Flickr

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Mengjia Longshan Temple by Photos By 夏天, on Flickr

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Mengjia Longshan Temple by Photos By 夏天, on Flickr

This is the exit where you can buy various items. I like all the roof work.
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Mengjia Longshan Temple by Photos By 夏天, on Flickr

There is a large waterfall at the main courtyard
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Mengjia Longshan Temple by Photos By 夏天, on Flickr
 
Good stuff. I enjoyed my tour. Are you finding the Samyang very useful, or more of a one trick pony? It is nice to find this amazing island in the middle of a big city with all that crazy dragon motif. Thanks for the tour.

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I think a fisheye is a 3 trick pony (if you know of any more please let me know):

1. All fish eye like photo
2. Keep the horizon in the center, take a really cool wide photo
3. Take a fish and post process it into something else

I will say this about the Samyang - my Canon 15mm fisheye cost over 2x as much and the two lenses are equal in build and image quality, but the Canon is autofocus. The Samyang has a distance scale so you can set it to 5.6 or 8.0 and set the distance to visible light infinity and rock on.
 
I've used a Samyang on an OM-D, and the lens was solidly built, wider than my P7-14 and sharper in the corners than my P7-14. I am very impressed with Samyang ... just keep wondering about how useful it would be.

G
 
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