Adventures in South Korea

Day 210: Hello again. We know we've been somewhat abandoning this blog lately- but now that it's nice outside we've been spending most of our time outdoors rather than inside on our computers. Not something I feel that bad about really. However, we've had a few requests to update the blog, so this is what we are doing :) In the past 50 days since our last post, it has become a lot more pretty around here, which has made our photo walks a lot more enjoyable...

Besides photographing flowers and nature, we do try and find interesting places and events to check out on the weekends. About two weeks ago, we went to a festival for Buddha's birthday. It was a beautiful day to just walk the streets and and talk to different kinds of monks...

We came across a group of monks who were making a gorgeous work of art from tiny grains of colored sand. They would rub these two metal sticks together (as you can see above) and grains of sand would slowly fall out one at a time. It was almost done by the time we came across it, but they must have been at it for hours. Later on in the day, we came across a few performances and a parade that was getting ready to start. Everyone involved seemed truly happy to be there, and they were happy to smile for some photos...


Last week, I took Brandon to one of my favorite places in Korea, the zoo. But, surprisingly I wasn't going to see the animals, I was going for the rose garden. Seoul Grand Park zoo has the most beautiful and gigantic rose/flower garden I have ever seen. It is only open for a few weeks and we came at the perfect time. First we checked out the amazing roses- they have every color and type of rose you can imagine, the garden looked like a rainbow of flowers.


Then to my surprise, we discovered a huge area of poppies. If you ask me, poppies are the most photogenic flowers, the way the light hits them is stunning and I probably took about 2000 photos :)


We just happened to run into one of the friendliest monks we've ever met who was also taking pictures of the poppies, and he was more than happy to let Brandon take some snaps of him...


So as you can see, we've been keeping ourselves pretty busy on the weekends. Luckily for us, we also get off early from school on Tuesdays & Thursdays which gives us a few hours on those days to walk around and shoot...


Clearly, no photo walk is complete without finding adorable puppies to play with. I beg Brandon to buy a puppy each time we come across one (which is very often) and since he never gives in, these pictures are as close as I'm getting to having a pet :( Anyways, that's what we've been up to. Hopefully we can get back to posting regularly but only time will tell. We booked our summer vacation to Bali the other day which we are super stoked for. I will finally get to play with a baby orangutan (and hopefully bring one back with me) so I am very excited! Hope your all enjoying your summer as much as we are.


With love from South Korea,
Shayna & Brandon xo