Sunday, August 26, 2007

106) Pictures from the Han River Park


Here you can see the National Assembly Building, and the 63 Building (slightly off to the left). These buildings are in Yeouido (the same place as Sera’s wedding).


I went down to the Han River (the main river running east/west through Seoul) near my house to the park. Nearly the entire shore of the Han River on one side or the other is part of the Han River Park. It is a nice place to go for a bike ride, roller blade, jog or just walk and take pictures. I did the latter. I was hoping to be able to get on a rooftop and take some pictures, but that failed, so I just wandered along the path by the river. While I was taking some pictures of people fishing, a man came over and said “hi” and we got to talking. He invited me to sit on his matt and I stayed and talked with him for a couple hours. It was a pretty unusual occurrence, meeting someone completely random and much older than I, usually I get the feeling people want something and don’t stay for long. But I was really happy to have met him and spent the evening talking with him.


This is a picture of Mr. Lee (on the left (the man mentioned above)) and his friends (on the right). Apparently the catch everyone is going for is eel! I saw a couple being caught, and actually they put up a pretty good fight.


A picture of some people enjoying the evening- lots of people just sitting on the bank talking.



This is the bridge that leads to Seonyudo Park (the place where many of the flower and bamboo pictures were taking).



This is just a spider I saw while trying to find a building that would allow my access to the roof.


Just an abstract shot I like.

1 comment:

tonight at noon said...

nice shots... love that one of the people just sitting on the bank, the abstract light, and the one from behind the fisherman. taking pictures is cool.