Shivering in Sokcho and Seoraksan

An unfourtunate fate for many jellyfish on Sokcho Beach

Angry sea responsible for mass deaths of jellyfish

Within the edges of Seoraksan Nat'l Park, one of many temples

Enough granite to make one feel an ant

How many Buddhas will I photograph in Korea? Not done yet...

Outside a prayer-hall-in-a-cave, respite before the day's main undertaking

And so we climbed up into the misty mountain top of Ulsanbawi...

In the folds of the fog and corners of crevices

Autumnal reds, essential and nearly obligatory in this collection

Under-awning dragons and bells, another temple

Gimme a Hand, Will Ya?

Sapling

Reach Out (a nod to SLP teachers everywhere)

Tower of power

I Like Bugs… From a Distance

This dude was hanging out late one night in the teacher's room doin' overtime

There is a late-summer children's craze to catch dragonflies

Browsing Bukhansan National Park

I have a thing for sunlight through a leaf...

Peeking back from halfway up the valley

Where we wanted to go, but were much too unprepared

This isn't my photography, but another view with which we were rewarded

Five Days in July… in China

An enormous, if token, lotus flower in Beihai Park, Beijing

The Bund to Pudong, across the Huangpu River, terrace dining, Shanghai

Along the Bund, former banks of the world, Art Deco preserved, Shanghai

Stumbled-upon market surrounding wholesale pearl merhcants, Shanghai

The 1933 Bldg, 2nd ever to made of poured concrete (after the Empire State) - a former slaughterhouse, Shanghai

800 year-old man-made lake and surrounding nightlife, Shichahai neighbourhood, Beijing

Angry fellow in the Western Elysium, a Lama temple, rebuilt 1759, now housed in Beihai Park, Beijing

1 of 635 dragons on a 25 x 6 x 1.5 m "Nine Dragon Screen," of which there are 3 in China, again in Behai Park, Beijing

Miniscule portion of the Forbidden City, home to 24 of China's Emperors, early 15th to early 20th century

Somewhere between the Jinshangling and Simatai sections of the Great Wall, looking back

And looking ahead

A Different Sort of Flower Festival (G&G)

These will get redundant, but the poppies were... the most populous

Our plastic pins for 11/11 don't really do these justice.

Middleaged foreigner to innocent Korean: "Some can be used to make heroin you know!"

A Jejudo of Sorts…

Medusa Xmas tree at the Glass Castle.

Dinner cruise and a view of the evening coastal rainbow.

Couldn't have done it better myself - colour wheels be damned.

I thought the point of photography was to capture reality... this looks so fake.

Towards the bottom of the falls, a sliver of the intense greenery.

This wouldn't be an album about Jeju without the ocean and a mountain.

Sparkling shallows (unexpectedly protected by really gross bugs in the rocks).

Looks almost as soothing as it sounds.

A Cherry Blossom Festival at Yoido

large crowds around the National Assembly Building

a little song and dance

notice the lovely highway ramp in the background

Tangible Contentment

as tacky as it is wonderful

Accuracy

I could kill a person if they stood very still and allowed me to aim