This photo is a little deceptive in that it shows less than one quarter of the city. I took it from about the center of the city in the World Trade building and just went towards the pie-piece of the city that had the sunset.

This shot was taken close to sunset, and everything was perfect to grab some sharp colors along with the brake lights of long exposures.

Over the weekend we hung pictures up at the gallery. Everything looks pretty sharp and those of you are coming to the gallery opening should see something a bit different, perhaps. I don’t know… impossible to be objective, but I do know it is different than what is usually shown there at Halcyon.

I’ll be showing about 45 pieces. Here is a sampling of the ones at the show. You will notice the first three are exceptionally pointy.
Dark Storm over Vancouver:

Intricate:

Spires of God:

Farewell Holland:

Fourth on Lake Austin:

This is Nathaniel:

Rush Hour in Seoul:

One Night in Bangkok:

Here is Seoul at sunset - check out the U-Turn trails on the large version.

Here is an HDR shot of the COEX area of Seoul taken around dusk.

Here is an interesting atrium of an office building in Seoul.

Seoul’s traffic is just about as bad as all major Asian cities, but when looked at from this vantage, it looks almost poetic.

I am leaving Seoul after a busy week here. I stopped at the top of the World Trade Tower after work yesterday to grab this HDR shot, which turned out pretty slick and Blade-Runneresque. If you click on it, then All Sizes, you can see it larger, which looks much better.

Seoul was rather cold, but clear yesterday, so after lunch I stopped at the World Trade Tower to take this shot:

I just uploaded all my pics to Flickr and here are a few cute shots I grabbed while in Korea last week.

On the last night in Korea, we all went over to Erik’s place to play board games and eat pizza. Here are a load of pictures from the night… including some very cute ones of Priya and her kids!

Look at the name of the pastry on the right… You’ll probably have to zoom.

I grabbed this interesting shot of a Korean pharmacy. I really like how everyone is standing in attention, ready to help the customer. You don’t see that in the US.

This picture was ill-advised and poorly shot, but it serves its purpose in telling this interesting tidbit about Korean life.

Most every day, Will, Erik, and I head over to one of the many saunas around Seoul. These are very popular and cost only a few dollars for entry. They are filled with naked Korean men who all walk around, moving from one hot tub jacuzzi to another. Most I have been in feature about four tubs of various degrees, a cold dip, lots of showers, a salt room, steam rooms, and the like.

The Korean men always really check out us whiteys. I think compared to their lithe hairless bodies, they see us as evolutionary Neanderthal hairy beasts trapsing around the sauna, using our fists to further propel our hindquarters.

Anyway, the reason I took this picture was to show these 20+ red blood circles on his back. About 10-25% of the guys in these saunas have their backs filled with red circles that are all bloody and bruised. It is the result of some new hot theraputic technique where they take a few dozen glass suction cups and attach them to your back and suck until they draw blood. It’s supposed to suck out toxins or something…

You can barely make out some of the spots in the pic below. It was very difficult to grab a secret shot while there are naked men walking around… Thank god remembered to turn off the flash.

Yesterday, while rooting around Gustaf’s apartment to find some razors or Lysol for the bed, we came across his book collection. Below, you can see what Will found… curious.

Myeongdong is one of about a dozen shopping areas of Seoul that are constantly packed with people, day or night. South Koreans seem to have an insatiable desire for shopping for clothes. North Koreans seem to have an insatiable desire for shopping for fissile material. This is a key difference I have noted.

Here is a picture of a three-story Dunkin’ Donuts.

And here is a typical department store in Seoul - this one is the Lotte Department Store. There must be (seriously) over 200 this size throughout Seoul.