assortment of schneeballes from Schneeballen found in the basement of a Korean department store (Lotte I think)

Beginning today, and for the foreseeable future, Tuesday’s blog entry will be Korea related.

Today’s pic is of some schneeballes from Schneeballen; these delicious-looking treats can be found all over Korea now. I saw these several times before actually buying one. I imagined something between a pastry and a donut. Instead, these “cookies” from Germany are closer to something between a fortune cookie and a stale collection of balled-up tortilla chips. Needless to say, I didn’t go back for more. They weren’t very sweet, and I felt like I was going to lose a tooth trying to eat one.

Posted on August 20th, 2013 under Korea. Tags: food, gwangju, Nikon 24mm f/2.8 AF-D nikkor lens, Nikon D600. Comments: 2

Japanese girls in yukata walking through Kyoto’s bamboo groves

Posted on August 19th, 2013 under Japan. Tags: arashiyama, bamboo, kyoto, Nikon 24-120mm f/4 VR G lens, Nikon D600, sagano. Comments Off on Bamboo grove near Arashiyama

Kushida-jinja (櫛田神社)

You don’t have to go to Kyoto to see a tunnel of torii gates. They are quite common at inari shrines like this one in Fukuoka.

Posted on August 17th, 2013 under Japan. Tags: fukuoka, kushida jinja, Nikon 24-120mm f/4 VR G lens, Nikon D600, shinto, torii. Comments Off on Torii gate tunnel

Employees @ Gwangju Airport wave goodbye to the planes

By the time this posts I should be in the air on my way back to the USA. I took over 5,000 photos while in Korea, most of which I haven’t even looked at yet, and only about 60 have been posted here so far. I’ll return to my more regular photos from Japan tomorrow, but maybe I’ll do a Korean Kayobi (Korean Tuesday) on the blog for the rest of the year or so with a photo from Korea every Tuesday.

Posted on August 16th, 2013 under Korea. Tags: gwangju, Nikon 24-120mm f/4 VR G lens, Nikon D600. Comments Off on Goodbye Korea

Night View from my residence (5F) in Gwangju, South Korea

I haven’t noticed this in any other country I have visited, but in Korea, when the sun goes down and the lights come on, you can’t find a view that doesn’t include at least one lit up cross. Sometimes you can see several. Usually they are red, but sometimes they are white or blue.

Posted on August 15th, 2013 under Korea. Tags: blue hour, buildings, gwangju, night photography, Nikon AF-S VR Zoom-NIKKOR 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED Telephoto Lens, Nikon D600. Comments Off on Gwangju night view