I’ve been having a good time relaxing at home, but was starting to get cabin fever. I got a chance to stretch my legs by spending yesterday with the Flickr in Seoul group. Our plan was to go to the 63 Building aquarium, and then wing it from there. All the pictures I took can be seen HERE.
Tickets were 12,000 won each. Even though there were 15 of us, we didn’t qualify for the group discount! I believe the minimum is 20 people. The aquarium is decent enough, just a little small. Plus, with it being a Sunday afternoon, there were lots of families there. We had to wait in line to get some face time with the fish.
Afterwards, we had coffee near the river and spent about an hour getting to know each other. After the sun set, the ones who wanted to went to Itaewon and had dinner at Gecko’s Garden. I had a Cesar Salad with a REAL anchovy(!) and a delicious dessert.
I encourage anyone who wants to meet new people to join the Flickr Group. You don’t have to be good at photography or have a dSLR or know any camera lingo. What it is, is a chance to hang out with some new people on a Sunday afternoon. There are meet ups every other week.
January 29th, 2008 at January 29, 2008 - 3:23 am
Beautiful pictures, as always! I love the one with the tiny fish swimming next to the snowflake…and the first shot of the 63 building is very nice.
January 30th, 2008 at January 30, 2008 - 1:11 am
“You don’t have to be good at photography or have a dSLR or know any camera lingo.” - but it helps. I’ve met some of you guys and it was a little cliquey
January 30th, 2008 at January 30, 2008 - 9:52 am
Haha… I understand what you mean. When I first got there on Sunday, I was the only girl out of 8 guys, who all had big dSLRs. Eventually 4 more girls showed up, out of 15, but photography is still male dominated with guys more than willing to critique your photos.
Generalizing, the girls attend the Flickr meets-ups to meet people and casually take photos. 3 out of the 5 girls had point-and-shoots. The guys tend to ogle at who has the bigger lens.
January 31st, 2008 at January 31, 2008 - 12:06 am
It’s not how big it is, it’s what you do with it….they were all generally nice people but just a bit techy with their camera talk, most of which went straight over my head. And frankly, they spend too much time taking pictures of each other taking pictures of each other….:)