This is the most unoriginal photograph in Gangneung. Every weekend hundreds of tourists show up in Wolhwa Park to eat fried chicken, stuffed dumplings (for which there are massive queues), squid ink ice cream (lines are shorter for this place), and so on. Some restaurant/cafe/takeaway place in the market area put these mirrors on their exterior wall to set them apart from all the other shops. I made this photo very early in the morning before the crowds showed up and I thought it was a clever self-portrait until I realised a bit later that these mirrors probably have their own hashtag on Instagram and about half the young women of Korea and their boyfriends have stood where I stood to make the same photo. My only consolation is that maybe my framing is a bit better than theirs . . . . And it’s black and white, so . . . Art!
I like it – but the trick would be to photograph it without any reflections of yourself at all ‘;0)
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I’ll have to get myself bitten by a vamoire.
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I like it. One of those shots that makes you look twice. And definitely it’s better being in B&W…but then the vast majority of shots are 😉
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I think there is some bias there. 🙂 Thanks for looking.
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