I must admit, I love these festivals. I guess that means that I am a bit of a fire-bug or something. At any rate, I love photographing them and I have tried to get out every year to catch people swirling fire and lighting a huge bonfire. This weekend is the prime time for catching the festivals. Why? well these are usually held during the first full moon of the lunar new year which I believe is this Monday. These festivals are held pretty...

  Well Sol-lal is finished and for those who don’t know what that is, it is when Korea celebrates the Lunar New Year. Being as this is a blog about photography in Korea, I though that I would take this time to look back at the previous year. 2011 was a great year and so far 2012 is shaping up to be even better. I actually learned a great deal in 2011, thus I want to share it with you. First of all I just want to give a shout...

Here is a collection of photos that I took during my last trip to Seoul. The weather was cold and dismal to say the least. However, there was a feeling that I got that it would make a great series of Black and white shots....

Jeff at Koreabridge is at it again with another great photo event! Do you have a great picture from 2011? Submit it to the Koreabridge for your chance to win some great prizes. So far here is what they have to offer: Prizes:  W250,000+ in cash and prizes (so far)      (1st prize = W100,000)  Type of Photo: Any photo taken in Korea in 2011 Deadline: January 10, 2012 Now even if you submitted to their summer photo contest (but...

For years I have looked for places around this area to get a good vantage point. This seems like a simple thing but it is not. Suffice to say that this entire area is not photo-friendly. They have even managed to blur themselves out of most of the mapping pages like Daum and Google. So why would anyone want to photograph such an industrial wasteland of pipes, factories, chimneys and other things that environmentalists like to pick-on?...

When I was in university there was a lot of talk about what it meant to “travel” This mostly came from white upper-class students whose parents were paying for their university and traveled to exotic and remote places like…. New Zealand or England. They came back with stories of how they were not tourists and mingled with the locals. Of course I am not entirely being serious here but for the most part that was the common...

The Shot: This is an iconic shot for me. Not only was this one of the first places that the photography bug really bit me this is one of the first areas that I lived in during my early years in Korea. I am standing on top of the Namun Plaza building in Ulsan. I am over looking the Sinbok Rotary that basically signals the entrance to the University district of Ulsan. Dave Harvey took me up here early on in my photography career and showed...

So I have spent the last week or so combing through codes and files on my server to find where the nasty malware codes were hidden. It was an annoying process but I learned a lot and I will share with you my experience. I know that this has nothing to do with Korean Photography but being as everyone that I know takes photos and probably has a blog, this may be useful. Blogs and websites, as you know are all prey for these jerks and the...

After reading a post about how to win photo contests, I decided to throw in my twenty won on how to do it in Korea. So this post won’t actually help you win anything but I thought that I would do a sort of write up about entering contests. I apologize if the title is a bit misleading. Basically, after judging the Korea Bridge Photo Contest I decided to write out my thoughts. 1. Read the Fine Print Many contests will have an FAQ...

It is that time of year again! Once again National Geographic is holding their photo contest and is looking for the best of the best in order to give away $10,000 and a trip to the National Geographic Headquarters in Washington D.C.  to check out their photo seminar in January 2012.  Do you have what it takes? Now this contest is not for the faint of heart as it costs $15 USD to enter. Many will pass this one by as I know that is a...