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30 Nov

Our Apartment

I wanted to quickly post another quick image of our apartment. I posted this one because you can see Mt. Halla in the background. Most places you go on the island you can see the mountain peak. Since it’s been raining here a little, it really snows on the mountain. The days have been crisp [...]

10 Nov

Photography and the Five Day Market

So I went out on my bicycle this weekend and snapped some more pics of tangerine farms nearby. Some of the pics are along our jogging path along the way to the Five Day Market. It’s a giant market that happens every five days here in Seogwipo. They have everything from clothes to gardening supplies [...]

27 Oct

photography via bicycle

Riding around Seogwipo on my bicycle taking pictures. I’ve been riding around Seogwipo the last few weeks with my camera taking photographs. I’ve been taking macro images of oxidized paint for a new series. This was a little self portrait I shot along the way.

19 Aug

Summer Vacation

This is a view of eastern Jeju-do from the ferry ride over to Udo. I shot this off the balcony of our hotel. You can see the many oreums of eastern Jeju-do in the distance. I just wanted to write a quick post about our summer vacation. We had 5 days off recently and we [...]

09 Aug

heat lightning

Heat lightning near Halla-san on Jeju-do. Another burst of light in the darkness. The fireworks continued but there was no thunder. It’s been hot. It’s been humid. Yesterday night was full of heat lightning. A big set of clouds worked their way over top of Halla-san and as they came down the side of the [...]

17 Jul

Sojeongbang Waterfall

Sojeongbang Waterfall. Overlook near Sojeongbang Waterfall. Overlook near Sojeongbang Waterfall with Seopseom Island in the background. Today we woke up a little late but decided to go snorkeling at Jeongbang waterfall. Well, when we got there the surf was pretty rough and one of the locals quickly informed us that we weren’t allowed to go [...]

16 Jul

Snorkeling at Oedolgae Rock

Nancy and I went snorkeling at Oedolgae rock early this morning. The weather has been VERY HOT and VERY HUMID, so a dive into the ocean felt extremely refreshing. We got in around 7:30am before the sun rises too high and becomes corrosive on my sensitive white boy skin. The video above doesn’t do the [...]

09 Jul

Arachnophobia!

The monster that was in my bed. I’ve been sitting around my apartment and finding these spiders crawling about. They are only about the size of my thumbnail, and look rather harmless. But when you take a micro lens to them they start to look like giant monsters! Nancy found the one in this photograph [...]

20 Jun

The Rainy Season

A stink bug seeking higher ground from the rain. So the rainy season has started here on Jeju-do. This means it will rain for a month or two straight from what I gather. It’s already been nine days of rain in a row so far. The whole island is covered in a thick fog. Everything [...]

29 May

Yohkoh Solar Observatory

I found some great time lapse images of the sun. I’m sure this is boring stuff for most people but it really blows me away. It makes me realize how connected we all are to EVERYTHING. It also makes me question so many of the everyday “norms” that I accept. Now that I’m an educator [...]