Yongchon Village Farming

Quite a while ago, I bought some Kodak Ultramax 400 film. I don't remember why. I think the plan was to use it in my Nikon F80 for snapshots. It took me a while to use it up and then send it away for developing and scanning, along with a roll of Ektachrome 100 and Ilford XP2 Super 400. Out of those four rolls of film, I had thirteen keepers, a rate of 9%. Not bad, I suppose, though I should have been more careful. The cost of the film, delivery, development, and scanning cost me 163,000 Won, which means each keeper cost me 12,538 Won. Holy crap. If I include every photo on those rolls (144 frames), the cost is 1,132 Won. Still not cheap. I have two rolls of film at home at the moment. Possibly my last.

One of the places I photographed on the Kodak 400 was the village of Yongchon. I've posted photos from there many times before, but here are a few more . . .

Cultivator in Greenhouse

Rice Plants

My Bicycle and Rice Field

 I like the look of film, but I'm not sure it's worth the price. Especially since I'm not working. The money I spent recently on film and developing might have been better spent on a digital photography post-processing course . . .

Pine Tree and Lights

 

The upward view from a convenience store picnic table

Rice Fields, Cheonjin

 

Another harvested/not harvested rice field picture. With the addition of a bale of rice straw and the subtraction of colour.

Entrance of Pet Grooming Shop

 

I assume the cat belongs to the owner and it's free to come and go or just flake out on the corner of a pad. I'm not sure if that dog behind the cage wall is jealous of the cat's freedom or contemptuous of the cat's refusal to do anything with that freedom.

Autumn Rice Fields

 

This photograph represents the change of seasons from the golden-tipped and heavy rice plants of autumn to the brown, stubbled fields of winter. 

Cracked Crosswalk Arrow

 

Is this a metaphor? 'The way ahead is not easy,' et cetera. Maybe not. The only thing I had in my mind when I made this photo was, 'This is a very long crosswalk signal.'

View of Ayajin from Bongpo

 I like the clouds, but my attention keeps getting hung on the hook of beach at the bottom left. So I cropped it out:

But now there is almost so water, so the picture became better in one way but worse in another. I'll keep the picture on my hard drive, but I don't think I'll print it and it won't be going into any portfolio.