No Parking in Front of Field

 

Hoesan Neighbourhood, Gangneung.

This plastic jug probably came from the restaurant next to the field. Someone put Xs on it to indicate you shouldn't park on the narrow concrete road. Someone else thought it would be a good place to put an empty tonic drink bottle so it would become Someone Else's Problem. It's not littering if someone eventually takes it away, right?

Coffee Break

 

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Imho Restaurant

 

Imho Restaurant, Hoesan.

I've never been inside this place, but I like the outside. The whole building turns red and orange in autumn. It might be difficult to see, but the roof is covered in potsherds. Probably just decorative, since they don't overlap to keep rain out of the building.
The signs over the entrance say, "Imho. Farm owned and operated. 100% domestic product. Goat soup, goat stew, grilled goat, boiled goat."

Irrigation Gates

 

Hoesan

Overgrown

 

Irrigation Equipment, Hoesan.

Utility Pole, Gwansol Road.

Land For Sale, Hoesan.

Geumsan Village

 Although I make a lot of photographs in Geumsan just south of my apartment complex, I have very few pictures of the village. The details are more interesting to me than the whole. On a bicycle ride earlier this month I made a couple of photos that I thought are worth keeping. The rest, as always, were deleted.

Utility Pole and Donghae Overpass

Clothes Collection Box

Break time at a community pavilion with sweet, milky coffee.

Apartment Complex, Autumn

 

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Bicycle Ride

 

Alton Bicycle Shop

My bicycle was making a terrible creaking noise from somewhere near the front, so I stopped by the Alton bicycle shop on my way to the supermarket. I thought the noise was coming from the front forks, but it turned out to be the pedals. The owner of the shop tightened them up and greased them up and I was on my way. Sadly, he didn't wipe off the extra grease and I ruined the lower leg of my trousers.

7-11 Convenience Store

On the way back from the supermarket I usually stop by this store to have a tin of coffee. This mocha version of Let's Be coffee is only sold in a few places. 

Dano Festival Centre Souvenir Shop

This traditional style building looks a bit out of place, but it's nice. You can buy souvenirs here and, according to a sign in the window, have a 'coffee experience'. I suppose you get to grind beans or something, but sounds something like drinking so much coffee that you start having visions.

Ukulele

 

iPhone 6s Plus, Silvertone Effect

Persimmon Tree

Persimmon Tree and Old House, Hoesan.

 I wasn't sure about this photo at first, but the more I look at it, the more I like it. There are lots of repeating and matching elements. The bare, withered look of the branches matches the dilapidated house. The shadow of the persimmon tree appears in the mirror. The apartments in the mirror are repeated by the apartments in the far background. Green foliage goes from right to left in the background, decreasing in height. Just like the blue roof. The line of trees in the mirror follows the line of three trees in the background. Oh, ho, ho. I wish I could claim to have seen all that when I was making the photograph. But possibly I was seeing it subconsciously because of all the photos I've looked at and the design books I've read. Something must have soaked into my thick skull, right?

Lines

Hoesan Neighbourhood, Gangneung.