It's a hot, hot summer! So we kinda wanna bum out...so off we spent the weekend at the MUD PITS!!! ^^
Group shots by Marco Barboza
24.7.2011 의자 민박
The more, the merrier...The crazier, the better!!! ^^
This travel blog will show photos and stories of the author's adventures in Korea. This can help travelers have a hint of the lifestyle in Korea from the perspective of a university student living in Jochiwon while she travels to Seoul weekly. "Getting lost is fun without the map and just the instincts" - (c) ACCA 2011 아냐
Showing posts with label photographers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photographers. Show all posts
Monday, July 25, 2011
Thursday, July 21, 2011
MUDPROOF YOUR DSLR. LET'S GEAR UP FILIPOS!!!
Even Reuters Photographers Make Camera Armor Out of Plastic Wrap | Popular Photography
We've all had the occasional situation where things have been spilled, dropped, smeared, or otherwise marred our perfectly good cameras — but what could possibly require covering your entire camera in plastic wrap like that? Reuters photographer Jo Yong-Hak covered the Boryeong Mud Festival this year — an annual weeklong summer celebration that involves millions of people visiting a mud-covered beach for sliding, wrestling, massages, competitions, and generally awesome summertime fun.
The festival takes place on Daecheon beach in Boryeong,120 miles southwest of Seoul, and the mud is renowned for being medicinal — though the celebration is as much about fun as it is health.
As much fun as this is for people, high end camera gear doesn't take so kindly to mud flying in all directions, so Jo Yong-Hak did the only thing practical — wrapping all the gear in plastic wrap. It won't protect the glass of your lens from getting smeared, but it'll stop the mud from getting all through the workings of your precious gears.
Though I can't imagine changing settings through all that plastic is particularly fun. But, it's nice to see that even photogs at the highest level sometimes resort to DIY solutions like this to get the shot.
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FILIPOS, LET'S GEAR UP AND MUD-PROOF 'EM!!! LEVEL UP AND GO!!! SUN UP AND MUDS ON!!! XD
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Friday, July 8, 2011
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Olympic Park Photowalk
01 May 2011
Photowalked with FILIPOS and learned a lot from SLAG mentors!
Obviously, Tin and I were tired for what few hours of sleep we had. So we woke up late and arrived at the Olympic Village / Park at 11 o'clock. Just an hour late. LOL.
The members were divided into amateurs and professionals and each amateur was asked to tag along with one professional photographer for that day's photowalk. It's a good practice and Tin and I tagged with the SLAG. I learned a lot particularly from Kuya Jhan-jhan who even reset my camera's settings and fixed it up to match his D90's settings.
The sky was not so moody and the sun barely shone but the weather was good enough to go along with us by not raining. ^^
Photowalked with FILIPOS and learned a lot from SLAG mentors!
Obviously, Tin and I were tired for what few hours of sleep we had. So we woke up late and arrived at the Olympic Village / Park at 11 o'clock. Just an hour late. LOL.
The members were divided into amateurs and professionals and each amateur was asked to tag along with one professional photographer for that day's photowalk. It's a good practice and Tin and I tagged with the SLAG. I learned a lot particularly from Kuya Jhan-jhan who even reset my camera's settings and fixed it up to match his D90's settings.
The sky was not so moody and the sun barely shone but the weather was good enough to go along with us by not raining. ^^
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Insa-dong and Hyehwa
23-24 April 2011
Sidetrippin' and Sleepin' Over at SNU
My class in Anam campus ended at 4:00 pm. I was excited despite my tired self because I'm about to go on a photowalk! My detox time! ^^
I reached Hyehwa station by 5:00 pm and there I met Tin!
Just when we were about to go back to her dormitory to leave my huge bag, we saw a performance across the street. So we decided to go see it! Several people were dressed in white with red, yellow and blue designs on the shoulder area and they were going around in circles while playing drums and many other instruments! It was the Traditional Korean Music and it was out of plan but making this sidetrip even more its worth! ^^
After the mini event was over, I had a mini tour of Seoul National University - Hyehwa and went to Tin's dormitory to leave my backpack.
1800 h
Antique Shops Lined the Street
We went around Insa-dong. It was full of antique shops and stores that sold small stuff like trinkets and just about any kind of souvenir for foreigners. The main street already had some lamps displayed as preparation for the Buddha festival. A lot of stores sold statues of Buddha as well and the deeper we went, the more antique shops we saw. Some of the store owners were kind enough to let us take photos of their displays. ^^
Traditional Korean Dessert
On our way back, we went to some booth that sold the traditional Korean dessert made of honey. At the first store, we watched four guys recite in Korean, describing their product and showing customers how the dessert is made. The second store was more entertaining cos the four guys recited in English and the "lead" even knew about the Philippines' SMB and kept repeating "San Miguel Beer, delicious!" LOL. We were waiting for free samples, too bad there were none! Hahah! It was fascinating to see how the "dough" separated into multiple strings - starting from one, two, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 ... and on it went until 16,384!
1930 h
Dinner at the best 토포키 place!
Menu: topokki with cheese, THE PIZZA, ramyeon and the free unlimited icecreeeeeam!
The pizza is to die for! I just gotta get back to that place and indeed, they had the best cheezy topokki! The chocolate icecream even had the hint of mint! ^^
The place has a very warm and inviting ambiance and it looked like a kindergarten classroom-turned-restaurant. ^^
We enjoyed the food so much that we realized how long we stayed ~ we wrapped up dinner for more than an hour! LOL.
Before we left, the restaurant owner asked where we came from and told us that he's a fan of Pacman! KEWL! ^^
love to go back again for the pizza, kindergarten ambience, cute pizza baker, really nice store owner :))
2100 h
Catholic Church at Hyehwa
We went to hear mass at the Catholic church and right after the mass, we each got a pair of Easter eggs! LOL.
2200 h
Photowalk at the University Street
If Manila has it's U-belt, Hyehwa has the counterpart. The place is also surrounded by numerous universities and is known as the "university street". After burning off some calories from walking, we went to a nearby hof for a round of Max beer and samgyeopsal! LOL. Yes, we foodtripped! That was one of the restaurants that served delicious kimchi so far, the second in my list. ^^
0130 h
Just before we headed back to Tin's dormitory, I did my trademark pose just outside the hof.LOL. c",)
Sidetrippin' and Sleepin' Over at SNU
My class in Anam campus ended at 4:00 pm. I was excited despite my tired self because I'm about to go on a photowalk! My detox time! ^^
I reached Hyehwa station by 5:00 pm and there I met Tin!
Just when we were about to go back to her dormitory to leave my huge bag, we saw a performance across the street. So we decided to go see it! Several people were dressed in white with red, yellow and blue designs on the shoulder area and they were going around in circles while playing drums and many other instruments! It was the Traditional Korean Music and it was out of plan but making this sidetrip even more its worth! ^^
After the mini event was over, I had a mini tour of Seoul National University - Hyehwa and went to Tin's dormitory to leave my backpack.
1800 h
Antique Shops Lined the Street
We went around Insa-dong. It was full of antique shops and stores that sold small stuff like trinkets and just about any kind of souvenir for foreigners. The main street already had some lamps displayed as preparation for the Buddha festival. A lot of stores sold statues of Buddha as well and the deeper we went, the more antique shops we saw. Some of the store owners were kind enough to let us take photos of their displays. ^^
Traditional Korean Dessert
On our way back, we went to some booth that sold the traditional Korean dessert made of honey. At the first store, we watched four guys recite in Korean, describing their product and showing customers how the dessert is made. The second store was more entertaining cos the four guys recited in English and the "lead" even knew about the Philippines' SMB and kept repeating "San Miguel Beer, delicious!" LOL. We were waiting for free samples, too bad there were none! Hahah! It was fascinating to see how the "dough" separated into multiple strings - starting from one, two, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 ... and on it went until 16,384!
1930 h
Dinner at the best 토포키 place!
Menu: topokki with cheese, THE PIZZA, ramyeon and the free unlimited icecreeeeeam!
The pizza is to die for! I just gotta get back to that place and indeed, they had the best cheezy topokki! The chocolate icecream even had the hint of mint! ^^
The place has a very warm and inviting ambiance and it looked like a kindergarten classroom-turned-restaurant. ^^
We enjoyed the food so much that we realized how long we stayed ~ we wrapped up dinner for more than an hour! LOL.
Before we left, the restaurant owner asked where we came from and told us that he's a fan of Pacman! KEWL! ^^
love to go back again for the pizza, kindergarten ambience, cute pizza baker, really nice store owner :))
2100 h
Catholic Church at Hyehwa
We went to hear mass at the Catholic church and right after the mass, we each got a pair of Easter eggs! LOL.
2200 h
Photowalk at the University Street
If Manila has it's U-belt, Hyehwa has the counterpart. The place is also surrounded by numerous universities and is known as the "university street". After burning off some calories from walking, we went to a nearby hof for a round of Max beer and samgyeopsal! LOL. Yes, we foodtripped! That was one of the restaurants that served delicious kimchi so far, the second in my list. ^^
0130 h
Just before we headed back to Tin's dormitory, I did my trademark pose just outside the hof.LOL. c",)
Sunday, April 10, 2011
My First FILIPOS Day: Yeouinaro Photowalk
I was overly excited and woke up at 6:00 AM. I checked the internet last night and it said that there's a train to Seoul at 7:18 AM. I had everything prepared, my memory card, spare SD card, my battery - well charged, lens and body - cleaned --- all set! I brought some oranges for breakfast in the train. ^^
I walked to the train station and only to find out that the next train schedule is at 8:10 AM! T___T" I was supposed to be at Singil Station by 9:00 AM in order to meet Kuya Marco and Kuya Mon, the two FILIPOS guys whom I met in the train yesterday. Since I couldn't make it, I called them up and asked for the exact train station where the club will meet up. So yeah, I'm gonna be late. T__T"
10:20AM YEOUINARO STATION EXIT 2
As I got out of exit 2, I saw a group of people with dslr's. "This must be the place then and they must be Pinoys", I thought. And when I got nearer, some of them were staring at me cos I had my slr over my neck and seemed to them like I was looking for one of them. They were right! Then I met Kuya Marco and Kuya Mon and they introduced me to the rest of the members. ^^ I met Tin, whom Kuya Marco thought was me (because of the long hair probably) and from then on, she became my best buddy in the club, my so-called long-lost-sister in Korea. Hahah... Tin is a Nursing Management graduate student in SNU and is already in her final year and has also been into photography. We talked as if we knew each other already and it was a lot of fun knowing each other and meeting other people in the club! A few minutes later, Krish, who was already a member of the club also arrived and introduced me to his two friends int he club. He's my batchmate in UST and we haven't seen each other since I arrived in Korea. So this is like our mini reunion and a sort of grand gathering with fellow Pinoy photographers for me!
We started our day with a prayer led by one of the leaders of the club, Kuya Nads. Then off we went to take photos of whatever we can. The theme of that day's photowalk was Macro Photography. Ok, I like macro photography but it's something I badly need to develop. So whatever happens, I'll just try to shoot whatever I can macro on as creatively as I can. LOL.
Tin is also addicted to coffee and she hasn't had breakfast yet. It was already past 12:00 PM and everyone was still busy taking photos! ^^ Though the place was still not in full bloom, there weren't so much cherry blossoms yet, it still looked beautiful and peaceful and I enjoyed taking random photos of passers-by, portraits of children rather than the macro theme. LOL.
There's a Ministop nearby and that's where all of us had lunch at past 1:00 PM already. Everybody sure was hungry! The group was gathered once again to announce the winners of the last photowalk's theme - Pre-nup Photography. Ate Janice was the winner and also the people's choice! Girls are ruling! ^^,
Tin and I decided to go home by 4:30 PM and I took the train to Jochiwon. By the time I reached Jochiwon, it was past 6:00 PM and I had enough time to buy some stuff at the market.
For the first time, I heard mass with Sue! We've been planning to hear mass together but our schedules hardly jammed. Finally, tonight was the night! Hahah! She's an undergraduate student in our department as well and I knew her through my professor who gave my number to her in order to contact me whenever she'd hear mass in Jochiwon. Sue has been one of my good friends since then and has been helping me with some Korean phrases! ^^,
Before heading to the bus stop, we bought some bread at Jong Man. It looked similar to Breadtalk and they have a quite a good selection of various pastries too! ^^, Dinner that night - pizza bread! ^^,
I walked to the train station and only to find out that the next train schedule is at 8:10 AM! T___T" I was supposed to be at Singil Station by 9:00 AM in order to meet Kuya Marco and Kuya Mon, the two FILIPOS guys whom I met in the train yesterday. Since I couldn't make it, I called them up and asked for the exact train station where the club will meet up. So yeah, I'm gonna be late. T__T"
10:20AM YEOUINARO STATION EXIT 2
As I got out of exit 2, I saw a group of people with dslr's. "This must be the place then and they must be Pinoys", I thought. And when I got nearer, some of them were staring at me cos I had my slr over my neck and seemed to them like I was looking for one of them. They were right! Then I met Kuya Marco and Kuya Mon and they introduced me to the rest of the members. ^^ I met Tin, whom Kuya Marco thought was me (because of the long hair probably) and from then on, she became my best buddy in the club, my so-called long-lost-sister in Korea. Hahah... Tin is a Nursing Management graduate student in SNU and is already in her final year and has also been into photography. We talked as if we knew each other already and it was a lot of fun knowing each other and meeting other people in the club! A few minutes later, Krish, who was already a member of the club also arrived and introduced me to his two friends int he club. He's my batchmate in UST and we haven't seen each other since I arrived in Korea. So this is like our mini reunion and a sort of grand gathering with fellow Pinoy photographers for me!
We started our day with a prayer led by one of the leaders of the club, Kuya Nads. Then off we went to take photos of whatever we can. The theme of that day's photowalk was Macro Photography. Ok, I like macro photography but it's something I badly need to develop. So whatever happens, I'll just try to shoot whatever I can macro on as creatively as I can. LOL.
Tin is also addicted to coffee and she hasn't had breakfast yet. It was already past 12:00 PM and everyone was still busy taking photos! ^^ Though the place was still not in full bloom, there weren't so much cherry blossoms yet, it still looked beautiful and peaceful and I enjoyed taking random photos of passers-by, portraits of children rather than the macro theme. LOL.
There's a Ministop nearby and that's where all of us had lunch at past 1:00 PM already. Everybody sure was hungry! The group was gathered once again to announce the winners of the last photowalk's theme - Pre-nup Photography. Ate Janice was the winner and also the people's choice! Girls are ruling! ^^,
Tin and I decided to go home by 4:30 PM and I took the train to Jochiwon. By the time I reached Jochiwon, it was past 6:00 PM and I had enough time to buy some stuff at the market.
For the first time, I heard mass with Sue! We've been planning to hear mass together but our schedules hardly jammed. Finally, tonight was the night! Hahah! She's an undergraduate student in our department as well and I knew her through my professor who gave my number to her in order to contact me whenever she'd hear mass in Jochiwon. Sue has been one of my good friends since then and has been helping me with some Korean phrases! ^^,
Before heading to the bus stop, we bought some bread at Jong Man. It looked similar to Breadtalk and they have a quite a good selection of various pastries too! ^^, Dinner that night - pizza bread! ^^,
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