February 2011 (Continued)

Please find below a link to an article in the North West Evening Mail:

http://www.nwemail.co.uk/home/features/simon-s-korea-opportunity-1.812472?referrerPath=home

Movies of South Korea and The Lake District

February 2011 (Continued)

Please find below some links to ‘youtube,’ where I have made some mini movies of the Lake District and Korea to try to give you a feel for both places:

Images of The Lake District:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4aV6LVlUxM

Images of South Korea:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ag1wsoqHX0

Around Ulverston, The Lake District:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT9GL3FK604

Images of Hongdae, Seoul, South Korea:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxP4ujP5q80

Images of the Crake Valley, The Lake District:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SdzTFs-pn8

Travel Photographer of the Year and the British Journal of Photography

February 2011

It has been quite some considerable time since I last blogged!  So, what has happened since then?  Lots of things, as you can imagine.  Where do I start?

 

Well, in summary, I went on with my studies at Yonsei University and have continued to build up my images of Korea. I also travelled during the vacation period to get images of other Asian countries nearby. Altogether it was a fantastic year in Korea and the good news is that I will be in Korea for another year to continue my projects.

 

Other good news is that some of my images were commended in the Travel Photographer of the Year competition. You can see the winning images under the World in Motion category at:

 

www.topty.com

 

One of my Korean images was also published in the British Journal of Photography (BJP) which is the longest running photography magazine in the world.  So altogether it has been a very successful time for my photography which continues to develop along new lines.

 

I am currently in Cumbria for a month and will soon return to Seoul to continue my studies and photography there. It has been wonderful to come back to the Lake District after living in such a large city for a year.  I appreciate it even more after being away and I am able to see things in a new way after my time in a very different culture and surroundings.

Enjoy the images and thanks for reading after such a long pause in blogging.

2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!.

Crunchy numbers

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 2,000 times in 2010. That’s about 5 full 747s.

 

In 2010, there were 6 new posts, not bad for the first year! There were 44 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 66mb. That’s about 4 pictures per month.

The busiest day of the year was March 23rd with 52 views. The most popular post that day was University and Soraksan.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were simonhathaway.com, digg.com, facebook.com, simonhathaway.com., and who-will-win-fifa-worldcup-2010.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for ondol, hahoe village, simonhathaway, cross section of ondol, and blog on soraksan.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

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University and Soraksan March 2010
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