Traffic Mirror

 

Traffic Mirror, Yongchon

A couple of weeks ago I rode my bicycle around a flooded reservoir and in places found myself halfway up to my spokes in muck. The mud dried, but, as I live in an apartment complex, I had no way to wash the tyres after I got home.

A few days ago I was out in the countryside and went to have a look at the weir on Yongchon Brook. I noticed that the water on the lower side of the barrier was about the depth of the mud on my bicycle tyres so I went across. The rushing water took away most of the dirt. 

Neither the brook nor the weir is in the photo above. The traffic mirror is at the top of the path that leads down to the water and I stopped there to check the state of my bicycle and see what sort of composition I could make with the reflection. 

Geumgang Large Bridge

 

As far as I know, all bridges in English are called Something Bridge regardless of size. In Korean, bridges are called Something Bridge or Something Large Bridge. Fine in Korean, a bit awkward sounding in English.
   What natural-sounding term could you use in English to name a large bridge? D' Dirty Big Geumgang Bridge? Girt Big Geumgang Bridge? Or something similarly silly. What about Great Geumgang Bridge? That suggests an architectural marvel and Sokcho's Girt Big Geumgang isn't that special. I guess Geumgang Bridge will have to do.
   The bridge has a bicycle/pedestrian path on both sides and I was on the eastern path when I made this photograph on my iPhone. I was on my way home from the supermarket and I didn't have a regular camera with me. Luckily, the phone camera is fine for small prints and monitors. The photo got cropped a little when I straightened it, but nothing important got cut. I had to clone out a large spot at the top of the frame in Lightroom. I thought it was a clump of pocket lint on the lens, but it turns out that something has gotten inside the phone. Or the sensor is damaged. Ugh. I'll either have to stop using the phone for photography or make sure that all my pictures have something black in the top part of the frame.
   Anyway, I like the picture and hope you do as well.