Break Time

 

Bus drivers often take five minute breaks at major bus stops like this one in the Sokcho Market. It's the end of the line and also the start of the line for circular route 55. The driver got out to have a chat with someone and then walk up and down the sidewalk with his electronic cigarette.

House and Cloud

 

Sangdomun Village, Sokcho

It took me quite a while to get some clouds that I liked. I started photographing the white house from about twenty or thirty metres to my left, but all the clouds would get halfway across the frame and disappear. Big or small, no cloud got more than halfway through the scene. So I walked down the road a little ways and was rewarded, after some waiting, with this nice length of cloud stretching across the sky.

Nikon D850, Nikkor 28mm 1.8G, Standard picture control. Grain effect added in Lightroom.

Mail Box and Flowers

 

Sangdomun Village, Sokcho.

I'm not good at getting up early to catch the dawn light, and even if I could get up at the Velvia hour, the buses here don't start running until seven o'clock or so, which means I can't get anywhere nice until about eight o'clock or later.
In summer at that hour, the sun is already washing out all colour and the will to live, but in late November when I made the above photo the light was still nice at nine-thirty. Which allowed me to get this pleasing picture of a post box and some hardy flowers.

Nikon D850, Nikkor 50mm 1.4G, and Standard picture control, for those of you are interested in those things.

Apartment Building and Traffic

 

As seen from a bus stop

Chesterton Hotel

 

Chestertons Hotel, Sokcho. Amongst all the brown and grey I like the little bit of purple between the buildings and the tiny bit of sky at the top.

Buddha Watching Over Child Monks

Out behind the main worship hall of Bo-gwang Temple are a few statuettes and figurines of Buddhas and monks. Was it an intentional decision by one of the temple monks to arrange some of the figures so it looks as though Buddha is watching over these child monks through the pine branches? Or is it my own interpretation? 
 

Unfinished Building

Unfinished Building, Sokcho.

 Two German-speakers passed me as I was photographing this building and crowded utility pole in the wasteland between Expo Park and the downtown hotels. I don't know what they were saying, but they kept looking up, perhaps trying to figure out what I found interesting.