Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Seoul, South Korea


This was taken while on a weekend walk with my good friend Nathan through downtown Seoul. This street used to be a concrete jungle with with a double-decker roadway as its primary eye sore. It was through a stroke of genius in city planning that it was transformed into the beautiful inner city parkway featured above. It opened a congested city street and breathed life back into the core area of downtown Seoul.

2 comments:

Canadian Canary said...

life ...and light.

Great shot. The image sparkles.

The crisp clarity of the subjects at the centre, the children cavorting around what appears to be a "stream" meandering through the causeway.

Lovely. Your photo did more to enhance my sense of what Korea is than all the mainstream news networks put together.

More, please.

Canadian Canary said...

I'm reading a book called The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels. From it, a line that caused me to recall Noetic Realities:

No one can take in a building all at once – it's like when we take a photograph – we're looking at only a few things, half a dozen or even a dozen – and yet the photo records everything in our frame of vision.

Ponder that. Many interesting thoughts arise.

I'm only on p.83 but the book is about architecture, engineering, and the soul. Or at least that's one way to frame it. Set in Egypt and Canada, primarily.

CC