Playing Pool

While out last night, we stopped by Friends bar in Itaewon to play a little pool. The lighting was great here so I had to pull out the camera. All these were taken at 400 ISO.











As always, let me know what you think!

Back Alley

Back alley not far from my house. It's a nice place to find some 돼지머리 or pig's head for sale. Always a lovely sight... and smell...

Backstreets of Jongno

If you walk around the back streets behind Jongno, you'll find some funny little places. This neighborhood was full of old style homes. It was rather strange, though to walk around. There seemed to be a large concentration of ajosshis drinking at 3 in the afternoon on a Sunday. Anyway, definitely worth the walk, just watch out for strange men stumbling through the streets on a Sunday afternoon.

Hammering Man

Tuttle from The Seoul Patch clued me in on what has been a big mystery for the past year an a half. That strange moving statue near the Seoul History Museum. It is eveidently part of of a series , of sculptures, created by Jonathan Borofsky, called Hammering Men, built to celebrate "the worker". Wikipedia has a decent write up about the topic if you're concerned. You can find other Hammering Men in cities around the world.

Kyobo

This should be enough reason to avoid Kyobo bookstore on a holiday...

Kids...

These were my kids from pre-school. They drove me nuts, but they could be super cute when they tried..

Hyo-Eun, my superstar


Jae Hoon always photographed well


Song Lee my beauty queen (and she knew it)


Jae Hoon again in another priceless moment

Just a moment in time

A Revisit to Namsan

Here are some fun photos I took on my second visit to Namsan (with camera this time... my phone camera just doesn't do the trick)

Around Anguk...

Yes! Spring is here!

Some cool, atypical shoes I found...

One of the traditional neighborhoods in this area...

Boy on the Chongyechong

And... cropped...

Ok, it's later. Not really, ok, so I cropped it. What do you think? I'm really not sure...

Guardians

So, I was just about to go to bed when I stumbled across this photo I took in January. I don't think I liked it at first, but the more I look at it, the more I like it. I just wish that stupid streetlight wasn't in the frame... maybe I'll crop it out or something later.....

Inwangsan Shamanist Shrine

I didn't realize until after I came home and uploaded this photo, that you can see all the rays of sunshine. I really love this. It's not often that you can get a close-up of a rooftop. But, the hill was so steep here that I was walking right next to the roof from the house below. I wish that this was a little straighter. I didn't line up the roof tiles quite in line, it's slightly off-center.
A view of Namsan and Seoul Tower from Inwangsan.

Swan boats in Yeouido on March 1st. Looked a little choppy out there, I'm glad I wasn't paddling around....

Rather unoriginal... but still fun...

Ok, ok. I know whenever anyone goes to a temple in Asia, they always get one of these photos.... but I had to do it too. Here are lanterns that people hang for good luck:

Turtles

This shot may not be my best, but I just thought it looked interesting with the reflection in the water and the turtles in the foreground.

Hopefully this weekend I'll be getting a new digital camera... and when that happens... all bets are off! I also think I'm going to Hong Kong for Chinese New Year, so if that happens, I hope to get some amazing shots... lets hope I don't bring rain there too.

Seoul Land at Night

While walking home from the Museum of Contemporary Art Sunday night, we passed Seoul Land all lit up for the night. This is an amusement park that steals some of Disney's ideas. My friend suggested a photo as we were walking past, so I figured I'd give it a shot. I like the reflection on the water and the outline of the buildings in lights.

I really like this photo for some reason. I think it's the contrast between bright red and fluorescent white. Besides, writing in other languages is always more interesting than in our own language. Would this be nearly as interesting if the signs were in English?

In the subway

These are all photos I took while in the subway. They aren't really my greatest shots. They seem a little dull to me. And they came out so blurry. Hopefully I will get a second shot at this when I get a new camera.


Ok, this doesn't look like a subway shot, but I actually took this while riding over a bridge over the Han river on Line 2. I had no idea there was a fence here, because when you're going that fast, your eyes can't distinguish that. I like this photo because of the brilliant blue of the water in contrast to the white fence. I also like that you can see the shadow of the cable on top of the train on the fence. It's really the only hint that you're on a train other than the fact that the fence is slightly blurred.



At first I didn't like this shot, but the more I look at it, the more it grows on me. This man looks a little sullen and just lost in his own world. Again, the photo is grainy and pixilated. This could be so much better.


Another boring, blurry photo from the subway that I took while waiting for my train in Dongdaemun Station.


I like these two photos because they are good perspective shots. Unfortunately, there is nothing interesting about them besides that.