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...

Dongdaemun At Night

While waiting for the boyfriend at Dongdaemun, I decided to fool around with the camera a bit. I've wanted to fool around with the shutter speeds at night for a while. This was a good opportunity. Now, unfortunately, I don't have a tripod, which makes this kind of photography really difficult with my shaky hands. I had to balance my camera on a fence and set the timer to 2 seconds so that hitting the button didn't shake the camera. Even then 10 minutes of taking photos resulted in only 3 clear photos.

According to the stats on Flickr, these photos were taken between .5-.8 seconds at 100 ISO.


Most of my photos came out very blurry like this next one. I guess my hand just can't stay steady...

How did it turn out for my first time? Any recommendations for this kind of photography?

Images from Hadong

Pagoda

Tiny cute Buddha

Entrance to the temple

Tea Ceremony

Tea Ceremony

Roasting fresh picked green tea leaves

Long time no post. Sorry about that. Anyway, you all know I always update my other blog, http://smileyjkl.blogspot.com, right? You can see more details about the trip here.

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...

Boston

I'm back in Korea again, but I guess I never got around to posting these photos from Boston.

Waiting area for the Fung Wah Bus

NYC Fung Wah Bus waiting area. This is why it's only $15 each way.

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

Alcatraz Prison

A welcome to Alcatraz Island. Remnants of the prison, and the Native American occupancy from 1969-1970.
Guard Tower
From inside the dining hall

Don't help the prisoners escape!