Lyman Tomlinson grave in the UN Memorial Cemetery (Busan, South Korea)

I went to the UN Memorial Cemetery for the Korean War in Busan last July. It’s a cemetery in Korea for Korean War participants from a dozen countries or so. Very few of the graves are for Americans as most of those were moved to the USA long ago.

The experience was very moving. Several Korean people there asked me where I was from and when I told them the US, they were very thankful. When I told them my dad was in the Korean War they were even more appreciative. I explained that my father’s job during the war was more or less a desk job in Japan, but they said they didn’t care. The fact that he was involved in any way was all that mattered. One guy got down on the ground and started bowing and crying. He made me cry too.

Posted on May 26th, 2014 under Korea. Tags: busan, cemetery, Nikon 24mm f/2.8 AF-D nikkor lens, Nikon D600, UN Memorial Cemetery. Comments Off on Memorial Day

I love bacon. I love a good pulled-pork sandwich. However, I don’t like to see where these items came from. I like to buy my bacon sliced and wrapped in a refrigerated section of a grocery store, not outside in a plastic basket (for who knows how long) on a hot and humid day with bugs swarming and smells so intense that your nostrils are singed. Marketing is a bit different depending on the culture I suppose.

Posted on May 21st, 2014 under Korea. Tags: food, jeju, Nikon 24mm f/2.8 AF-D nikkor lens, Nikon D600. Comments Off on Pig parts in Jeju (South Korea)

May 18th National Cemetery

Posted on May 18th, 2014 under Korea. Tags: gwangju, May 18 5.18, Nikon 24mm f/2.8 AF-D nikkor lens, Nikon D600. Comments Off on In Remembrance of May 18, 1980

キリンビール ad in Meiji Jingu Stadium

I miss this place.

Posted on May 5th, 2014 under Japan. Tags: baseball, beer, meiji jingu, Nikon 24mm f/2.8 AF-D nikkor lens, Nikon D600. Comments Off on キリンビール

Exiting Tennoji Station (Osaka, Japan)

Today’s photo was the scene as I departed 天王寺駅 on the night before I was to fly to Korea last summer. I had an early morning flight so I figured Tennoji was a good place to stay in order to get to the Osaka Airport (KIX) quickly the next morning.

With so many choices of things to do (3-story 24/7 McDonald’s, pachinko, love hotels, and on and on) I opted for none of these. Instead I found a Yoshinoya and enjoyed a 280 yen bowl of gyudon.

Posted on May 4th, 2014 under Japan. Tags: night photography, Nikon 24mm f/2.8 AF-D nikkor lens, Nikon D600, osaka, Tennoji 天王寺. Comments Off on What to do?