With camera in hand, I went to Suwon on Sunday evening to photograph some blue hour shots of the Janganmun Gate. Which, for those keeping score at home, is Korea’s largest city gate. Sadly, I shot a lot of my shots using a circular polarizer, just to experiment. The results looked like crap. Which means [...]
While I was shooting Incheon Bridge last night, one of the other guys there was showing off on his Galaxy some of the shots he’d taken the night before of Banghwa Bridge. Due to government energy conservation policies, they no longer light Banghwa Bridge up ever day, but they do turn on the lights on [...]
Ordinarily, the observation deck near the West Gate of Namhansanseong Fortress is one of the best places to photograph Seoul at twilight/night. Last night, though, it was hella windy, which not only made it terribly cold and unpleasant, but also produced a good deal of camera shake even with a tripod. PS: Would a circular [...]
One of the many nice things about living in Seoul is you’re never more than an hour’s commuter train ride away from somewhere much more relaxing. Last weekend, I finally had a sort-of-free Sunday, so I broke out the camera and hopped on the 5:30 train from Cheongnyangni to Yangsu-ri to catch the sunrise from [...]
The photo above was taken at Yangsu-ri (a.k.a. Dumulmeori) in Yangpyeong, Gyeonggi-do and appears in the May issue of SEOUL. Was hoping to see a bit of mist, but alas. Anyway, it’s proof that you needn’t go very far to take in scenic beauty — that’s a 20 minute walk from a subway (?) stop [...]
One doesn’t normally associate war with church building. Indeed, many of Korea’s historic churches were destroyed or badly damaged during the Korean War. The resulting need for new churches to replace the ones lost in the war, however, sparked a wave of church construction in the mid-to-late 1950s, particularly in the areas close to the [...]