During my time living in South Korea, there was an especially spectacular supermoon - or maybe it was just the stunning view my little room in Hwajeong offered me at the time... whatever the case, I was glad to have been able to capture some measure of it for posterity. I tried using my phone and my digital camera, which is coming up on a few years old now so it's rapidly becoming something of a fossil by technological standards but I wasn't entirely disappointed with the results. There are certainly professional astrophotographers out there with the equipment intended for truly capturing the beauty and magnificence of our friendly little satellite who captured exponentially better photos, but for a point-and-shoot it's not bad, and none of them would have captured my specific viewpoint at that particular time in history. I wanted to be able to share this moment with the people I care about back home, and record it for my own memory in a tangible way. The science of human memory, and the terrifying fallibility of it as time goes on and our biological machinery grows weary shows how fragile our recollections can be, so having external reservoirs for memories seems like a pragmatic way to try to preserve the passing moments in a lifetime. Maybe I'm just sentimental in this way... I've always had an affinity for words and was a voracious reader growing up, so the idea that our thoughts can be captured by words like an insect in amber has always appealed to me. Why not include photography in this mix? With the ever-expanding technological prowess available to the modern consumer, we have an endlessly growing selection and price point to make these things happen. That's more or less the premise behind this blog, as I try to preserve memories of my travels in a way that is authentic and externally based. It takes time and effort, but so do most worthwhile things in life. We've all got our magnum opus...and who knows, maybe after writing hundreds of blog posts and typing out dictionaries worth of words, an actual book of some sort might come into being. You never know if you don't try, and to do anything well takes practice, after all. But I digress, I'm veering away from the point of this post... the moon! Photos of the moon! There are more of those to be found here, never fear.
Cheers!
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XOXO,
NAU
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