Living in Korea

* 이 글은 2013년 12월 19일 12:14 am에 작성된 글이니, 착오없었으면 합니다.

Yongsan station cityscape panorama, view from the top on Flickr.

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I've been one of most spectacular cityscape viewpoint in Seoul - Night in Seoul, view from the Eungbongsan with sepia tone https://www.flickr.com/photos/ara21c/10667443594/

and this place also one of spectacular viewpoint in Seoul.

But I think it will change someday in the future because many constructions are going on surrounding areas.

Yongsan. So much I'd like to talk about this area but I don't want to know about this area so not that interest.

Anyway, I did know this place because I'm working there. It was short-term work so I won't be there long though.

I thought about bring my camera and get the permission to enter the place for taking photos. But I am not that interested to know about this area so I will skip it.

I've taken a photo through the unclean window so color wasn't great and some part of place's color were quite wrong, I think.

But still you can see how it looks like.

Photo taken with HTC Desire HD and uploaded to google photo service and it automatically generated panorama photo. You can see the auto-generated one here https://plus.google.com/u/0/+AraSeongpillkon/posts/jJzvtg2K58R

And then edited with Gimp - Adjust color levels and resized.

* 이 글은 2013년 11월 17일 21:35 pm에 작성된 글이니, 착오없었으면 합니다.

At the Sunyoudo, Seoul, Korea. - auto-generated by Google Photo+ on Flickr.

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I just turn on the Google+'s auto-backup in android smartphone which is Htc Desire HD.

Interestingly, Google photo+ was made it for me from several photos which has movement in the scene.

You can find it more from https://support.google.com/plus/answer/3113884?p=photos_auto_awesome&hl=en&authuser=0&rd=1

generated by Google photo+ and simple editing like white balance and scale image with Gimp.

* 이 글은 2013년 10월 30일 18:09 pm에 작성된 글이니, 착오없었으면 합니다.

Autumn in progress - wave of Autumn foliage on Flickr.

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Hongreungsoomokwon 홍릉수목원 in Seoul, Korea.

Flickr in Seoul http://www.flickr.com/groups/flickrinseoul/ photowalk at October 27, 2013.

Resized and then applied Gimp’s high-pass sharpen filter.

* 이 글은 2013년 9월 27일 22:20 pm에 작성된 글이니, 착오없었으면 합니다.

Fire–bird. That's what I imagined. on Flickr.

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Fire–bird. I can't remember the name. Only I remembered in Korean name which is '불새 Boolsae'.

So I have to search from online Korean dictionary. And it said it came from Egyptian mythology. So I googled it and found that it was call the 'Phoenix'.

I was quite surprised because it came from Egyptian mythology.

Now I realised that I am not sure whether I was imagined Phoenix or some birds(which I probably imagined Korean mythology bird '봉황 Bonghwang') with fire in it.

Auto white-balanced and cropped and resized in Gimp.

* 이 글은 2013년 8월 6일 13:14 pm에 작성된 글이니, 착오없었으면 합니다.

poster: FIS - Flickr In Seoul on Flickr.

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We do love little creatures.

Flickr in Seoul web address - http://www.flickr.com/groups/flickrinseoul/

Gimp practice: multiple times of selection(This is the only hard part but Bamboo tablet helped a lot.) and cut&past. And drop shadow from Gimp filter.

And add text, of course.

And I've got that bee from openclipart.org http://openclipart.org/detail/179492/

* 이 글은 2013년 8월 3일 13:14 pm에 작성된 글이니, 착오없었으면 합니다.

Incredibly hot but at least bright sunny day in Seoul. on Flickr.

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It is incredibly hot day. But when I saw that very white cloud, I couldn’t resist to take photos.

It's beautiful day so go out and enjoy yourself.

photo taken with Nokia N8

photo edited with Gimp - Auto white balance, crop and resize

* 이 글은 2013년 7월 30일 15:19 pm에 작성된 글이니, 착오없었으면 합니다.

beauty of curves on Flickr.

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It was so beautiful flower that I had to upload.

Interestingly most of my photos aren't flower but I am almost uploading at first.

I don't know anything about the flower but it was kind of favourite subject for taking photos, especially with my phone camera.

- photo taken with Nokia 5800 xpressmusic

- photo edited with Gimp:adjust color level and color enhancing

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white water lily at the Jeongdok library in Seoul on Flickr.

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This is quite easy to manipulate because yellow stamens of water lily has quite distinguishable color.

Many people are doing this kind of photo editing so it is nothing new. But I just want to have it for myself.

photo taken with Nokia N8 and photo edited with Gimp