Post-Film End of a Bicycle Ride

I used up the get-it-over-with end of a roll of Kodak ProImage 100 on a bicycle ride in the countryside this morning and, instead of putting in another roll of film and making maybe one or two more pictures, decided to switch to the Hipstamatic application on my phone.

Brunch Café 

This unusual brunch café is between the villages of Yongchon and Bongpo. Right behind me is the sea and between me and the café is an empty field. I wonder how long it will stay empty. Maybe there's something wrong with the land, otherwise developers would have torn up every flower and bush and put up ugly concrete boxes to sell coffee in by now.

Yongchon CU Convenience Store

I made my regular stop at a convenience store to take a break.

Everything I need for an hour or so of riding and rests - camera (Nikon F80 today), books of poems, and a notebook. I pay my seat fee at the convenience store by buying a small container of milk to drink.

Out of frame to the right is a former empty piece of land that now has a massive convention centre being built on it. They destroyed every living thing on that piece of earth, built an ugly concrete building, and then dug up some pine trees from somewhere else in the country and dragged them to this place to make the new eyesore look like it fits in with nature.

Farmer's Shed

It's not a pretty concrete box, but at least it's photogenic.

Yeongang Lake

Almost home. I stopped to make a picture of the lake. In the background you can see a new apartment complex going up. The former mayor relaxed the rules about building around the lake park. Again, why have trees when you can have money?

I love riding out into the countryside. It's usually relaxing, there are lots of places where you don't have to meet people and cars, and it's relatively quiet. But seeing the land being torn up for development gives me a sour taste in my mouth.