What Comes Next?
A little break from Hawaii photos. On the same trip I had to fly from Hawaii back to California and then on to China, Hong Kong and Korea. This was one on the tail end of the trip and I was pretty exhausted by this time, but also a little obsessed with getting a decent photo in every location. I found a photo on flickr by photographer Douglas Knisely that used this bridge to great effect. Here's the photo, I highly recommend you check it out: flic.kr/p/fHP16p.
Sadly, my model (that would be me) is definitely not as photogenic as the one that Douglas used in his photo. I also switched it up by using a different side of the bridge and shot at different time of day. Finding the location for this photo took a *lot* of detective work, and a lot of walking! Unfortunately Douglas' photo (and other photos in this location) had no location info. So I took to Google, but in all the photos of bridges in Seoul I searched on the web, exactly NONE of them looked like this. And there are over 20 bridges around Seoul, so trial and error was not going to work. I found one other photo taken in this location which had a slightly wider view and showed a tiny fragment of the bridge top. I was then able to narrow down to two possible bridges based on the color and walked around both ends of the most likely bridge until I found it! The task was made even more difficult by the fact that Google obscures the satellite images of Seoul (for obvious reasons).
The title is a double reference: 1) to a song from the musical Alexander Hamilton (one of 3 hilarious songs sung by the King George character, and a fantastic play!), which my daughters have become obsessed with, and 2) to the recursive tromp l'oeil created by the morning light on this fabulous set of arches.
For anyone else that wants to check out this location, it is on the north side of the Hangang bridge (aka "Peace bridge").
Taken with Pentax K-3ii and Pentax 24-70mm @50mm.
What Comes Next?
A little break from Hawaii photos. On the same trip I had to fly from Hawaii back to California and then on to China, Hong Kong and Korea. This was one on the tail end of the trip and I was pretty exhausted by this time, but also a little obsessed with getting a decent photo in every location. I found a photo on flickr by photographer Douglas Knisely that used this bridge to great effect. Here's the photo, I highly recommend you check it out: flic.kr/p/fHP16p.
Sadly, my model (that would be me) is definitely not as photogenic as the one that Douglas used in his photo. I also switched it up by using a different side of the bridge and shot at different time of day. Finding the location for this photo took a *lot* of detective work, and a lot of walking! Unfortunately Douglas' photo (and other photos in this location) had no location info. So I took to Google, but in all the photos of bridges in Seoul I searched on the web, exactly NONE of them looked like this. And there are over 20 bridges around Seoul, so trial and error was not going to work. I found one other photo taken in this location which had a slightly wider view and showed a tiny fragment of the bridge top. I was then able to narrow down to two possible bridges based on the color and walked around both ends of the most likely bridge until I found it! The task was made even more difficult by the fact that Google obscures the satellite images of Seoul (for obvious reasons).
The title is a double reference: 1) to a song from the musical Alexander Hamilton (one of 3 hilarious songs sung by the King George character, and a fantastic play!), which my daughters have become obsessed with, and 2) to the recursive tromp l'oeil created by the morning light on this fabulous set of arches.
For anyone else that wants to check out this location, it is on the north side of the Hangang bridge (aka "Peace bridge").
Taken with Pentax K-3ii and Pentax 24-70mm @50mm.