Falling Up

New video! I have to admit I really love making these videos, short clips from wherever I can manage to record them. My previous two from India found a lot of love from my readers and I was excited to make a new one at some point to share. This time around I had access to a high definition camera for the first time ever, a Canon 5D MarkII and I am thrilled with the results and can not wait to eventually have one of my own.

On a random grey day here in my apartment in Seoul big snowflakes started to slowly drift down from the sky and so I took advantage of being seven floors up and captured video of the snow falling from a number of different angles and this ended up being my favorite, very straight forward and subtle. The snow drifting through the focal point halfway to the street which is blurred in a wash of bokeh below and during this take one single person wandered through the shot and ended up acting as a ghost in my snowy mini movie. Another hypnotic moment slightly altered to bring a bit of mystery to the table and I hope you all enjoy it. You can see it in full HD over on the Vimeo page, apparently I’m not allowed to embed HD video unless I am a plus member I think.

Edit: Also, on a related note, there was a video from a while back made by YoungDoo where she reversed the fall of the snow and I loved it at the time and I was reminded of it after I made this and posted it and I wanted to add link to it for those of you who liked this video I think you will love hers as well, just beautiful!

Music is from Four Tet, a great song from his wonderful new album.

Drifter

I love that there is a pigeon in the shot here, I have no idea why but I felt it made the shot a slight bit more interesting somehow. In framing this I knew I wanted it to be a desktop and I also new that by putting the subject on the right here I would be going against the unwritten rule of leaving the right side clear for icons in OS X but sometimes I can not help myself as I just frame shots as I see them and in a way that works best for the shot so I hope you don’t mind when I choose to do so. Why not flip it? well, that just feels weird to me, once I take a shot I sort of get attached to it and flipping it just feels so counterintuitive, flipping reality like that. Also, look, I am in the shot too!

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Rice Wine

I shot this while walking around in a few blocks of an amazing little area called Chungmuro which is full of wonderful cozy little camera shops, most selling film cameras and film and darkroom or lighting equipment. The window shopping is simply the best! So why not a photo of some cameras in a shop here? I was wondering that myself just now and maybe I will have to make a trip back there sometime for that but for now I snapped this interesting shot of some vibrant green bottles full of rice wine. They were glowing like this and I could not resist. I have not been to a city that has so much green around as Seoul… anyways.

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Temple

While walking around in Seoul we stopped by a seemingly random Buddhist temple surrounded by tall buildings and metropolitan city life and while it was pretty quiet I could not help but sort of feel like it was missing something somehow due to its busy surroundings. There were places of peacefulness hiding among the sound of cars and cold wind blowing through the buildings such as this, a common little bowl for burning incense along with a prayer. I love the smell cast off these spots and could not help but casually snap a photo while I was there.

To download the desktop size version of the photo simply CLICK OR RIGHT CLICK HERE to grab the zip which also has a handy little terms of use file for your reading pleasure. Thanks for visiting and enjoy!

At Lunch

Its not to horribly obvious that I have trouble naming desktops sometimes is it? I shot this randomly at lunch one day this week while eating some really tasty Korean Porridge. I have been trying to shoot images in a lighter sort of a way and rather than my usual stop or so of underexposure I have been pushing it the other direction. I will admit that I tooled around in photoshop a bit with this one but I like the way it came out here so I don’t mind admitting it.

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