A dawning occcurs when shooting an event like the Fireworks Festival an oh no. “I’m going to have to look through all the photos I am taking” and a slight sense of dread sets in. Quickly it disburses with the next awesome fireworks when your finger hits the trigger button and doesn’t let up, and […]
Monthly Archives: November 2019
As architects’ attract me…. so does anything fabric… Timothy found an exhibit of designer’s Sul Yun Hyoung work at the DDP. I had never encountered her work before, but immediately fell in love with a couple of her more tempered designs and loved all the color. Timothy and I studied this one trying to figure […]
Pianos frequented the various areas around the exterior of the building..some had little children banging on them, others had people playing classical pieces…somehow I missed those photos… But I did capture the interesting chairs placed outside, although they were difficult to photograph. I uploaded two photos from different views, to hopefully show the design. One […]
I lo ve photographing the ceilings and around the staircases in buildings. Hadid’s DDP didn’t disappoint!
Several years ago I started searching out different architect’s work…I was fascinated by what I was seeing in the modern buildings in Japan and some of the European countries. Now when we are going to a new place, I activity search out my favorite architects’ work and look for others that I have yet to […]
This temple property was a gift to Venerable Buojeong Sunim, a Buddhist monk whose writing, “Non-Possession” had inspired the owner of the property which had been an upscale restaurant. The owner was a woman named Kim Yeong-han who was a gisaeng ( similar to a Japanese geisha). The story we were told was that she […]
What amazed Hugh and me as we walked through the market was that the stalls were covered with black plastic – that was the sole “security” around all the goods and clearly that was to protect from the weather. When I asked about walking around Seoul in the morning our guide assured us that Korean’s […]
Another morning of walking the early morning market in Seoul. The activities that start in the dark…
The Lantern Festival was on what the Korean’s call a “Stream”. The “Stream” possibly better called a “river” was covered in the 1960 by streets. It was “uncovered” sometime in the early 21st Century and now as you walk along it, there is a feeling of a city park. The guide said the temperatures in […]
We happened to wander into this museum after visiting the Palace. Unfortunately we didn’t have time to fully investigate the museum. Here are a few one off photos…