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Published: 2006-10-12 14:08:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 2808; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 69
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Description a rice field less than 10 minutes walk from my university. Farms in Korea are for the most part fairly small - not like the giant, monstrous ones you get back in Australia. I tried for a deep depth of field with this one, in order to get as much detail as possible.

The red stamp thingie is actually a wooden stamp I had made up over here - it's my first and last name in Korean. This really old guy carved it out of some wood, and I keep it in a little pouch. I actually needed this to sign a document when I bought a car recently. Koreans don't sign documents with a pen - they all have their own stamp made up. I thought it might be good to use it to sign my devART submission from now on...

Lens: EFS 10-22mm
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Comments: 39

bchere [2007-09-20 23:45:48 +0000 UTC]

they still use stamps?! i'm sure the city uses pens?

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mesondecay In reply to bchere [2007-09-25 15:06:58 +0000 UTC]

Oh I am sure many places do. But loads of regular people still use stamps to sign documents when they go to the bank etc, and I needed one when I bought a car and had to transfer it into my name. It's a quirk I hope never goes away, because as a foreigner here it seems really interesting.

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karemelancholia [2007-01-16 20:56:33 +0000 UTC]


Congrats!!!
You've been chosen for the '2006 Visual Art Feature'!
This deviation is in the feature : [link]
Hope this will bring you more views, favs and devwatches!!

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mesondecay In reply to karemelancholia [2007-01-24 00:40:22 +0000 UTC]

thanks very much! I'm really happy I made it!

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cjmchch [2007-01-09 08:53:36 +0000 UTC]

great shot this Andrew.

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mesondecay In reply to cjmchch [2007-01-09 14:49:34 +0000 UTC]

thanks very much, Chris - always happy to see your comments.

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karemelancholia [2007-01-09 00:47:14 +0000 UTC]


Marvellous! deserves a .
I'll probably put this deviation in my special '2006 Visual Art Feature' that i'm preparing!
Lemme know if you want one of your deviations in particular, please send me a comment in this journal entry or i can forget! : [link]
Your are such a wonderful artist!

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mesondecay In reply to karemelancholia [2007-01-09 04:23:31 +0000 UTC]

Wow, thanks very much! You honor me too much... I'll definitely comment in that journal entry as soon as I am done with this. I really appreciate your wonderful comment and the extremely nice offer of adding this piece to your upcoming art feature. You're the best!

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karemelancholia In reply to mesondecay [2007-01-09 05:19:28 +0000 UTC]

dear it is "just" that your photo caught my eyes! so i love it so i feature it!
and thanx for all the great comments!

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samisasnob [2006-12-04 23:43:08 +0000 UTC]

i'm blown away, which part of korea is this in? i'm visiting it on thursday.

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mesondecay In reply to samisasnob [2006-12-05 06:51:30 +0000 UTC]

Heya - thanks for the kind comment. I took that towards the rural area of Daegu (or 'Taegu' in the old spelling). 10 minutes walk from the Geongsan campus of Daegu University.

Unfortunately you won't see the rice that like right now, as I took that picture back on October7th. Now we're in early December, and all the rice has been harvested. You might see some interesting piles of husks, but it depends where you go. There are several different ways of piling it up, and each farmer seems to do it a different way from his neighbor.

I'm sure you'll have a pretty cool time here, even though there's not much color around atm, and it's getting pretty chilly! Have a look through my gallery if you wanna check out some more Korean photos - 95% of them are from around South Korea. Oh, and if you're down in Daegu, gimme a shout and I'll buy you a beer - or a soju if you wanna hit the local poison.

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CatchMe-22 [2006-11-14 06:58:30 +0000 UTC]

Amazing shot... you've got a beautiful gallery mate! love the colours... I'm interested to see this shot as a panaramic though... I think the sense of space will be even more majestic

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mesondecay In reply to CatchMe-22 [2006-12-03 07:01:36 +0000 UTC]

Hey, thanks a lot for the comment and useful idea. I may have a shot taken in a panoramic view, I'll have to see if I can dig one up. Nowadays, all that rice is harvested and gone. Looks pretty bleak and cold out there!

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snow-munkiie63 [2006-11-09 06:57:49 +0000 UTC]

Amazing colour. I love the simplicity of this.

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mesondecay In reply to snow-munkiie63 [2006-11-12 06:45:12 +0000 UTC]

thanks very much - that's what I was going for - simplicity of color and general landscape. Only when you look closer do you see the complexities in the rice. Thanks very much for commenting!

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thetransient [2006-11-09 06:45:24 +0000 UTC]

It's beautiful, kind of ironic with the big building in the background when the field is so green and natural.

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mesondecay In reply to thetransient [2006-11-12 06:44:20 +0000 UTC]

I agree, and so I kept it in view as a kind of seperate focal point. Glad you spotted that sense like I did. Thanks for the comment!

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chaaaLaLoco [2006-11-08 14:43:02 +0000 UTC]

I like how it's divided into to parts - blue & yellow

its 3G= ood shot good concept good composition

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mesondecay In reply to chaaaLaLoco [2006-11-10 14:01:05 +0000 UTC]

hey, thanks very much for your kind words...

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BryanDc [2006-11-07 16:39:48 +0000 UTC]

i lvoe the shot, the colour.. and of course RICE!lol

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mesondecay In reply to BryanDc [2006-11-08 14:19:55 +0000 UTC]

hehe, thanks a lot - glad you like the photo (and rice! )

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BryanDc In reply to mesondecay [2006-11-08 15:59:21 +0000 UTC]

yay go riCe!!.. i was born to eat rice.. i eat rice everyday.. eat rice with w.e my mom cooks lOL

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karemelancholia [2006-11-07 14:20:16 +0000 UTC]

oh and the building on the backside says it all!!!! definitely faved!

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mesondecay In reply to karemelancholia [2006-11-09 14:03:20 +0000 UTC]

Wow, thanks so much! I really appreciate the comment and the

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call-me-green-tea [2006-11-07 02:57:59 +0000 UTC]

Well,I'm not a big fan of photography,but I like this one.
I like how you captured the color of the sky that contrast nicely
with the cornfields.^^
Umm...yeah I'm really a sucker of pictures that show cornfields.

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mesondecay In reply to call-me-green-tea [2006-11-07 11:29:51 +0000 UTC]

thanks very much! I'm glad you like the contrast; I think it's one of the more important things in this photo.

The only thing is, it's a rice-field - not a corn-field...

Thanks again!

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weirdklown [2006-11-06 14:53:38 +0000 UTC]

great shot of a field, the only part i dont like is that you can see the building...but maybe thats just me

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mesondecay In reply to weirdklown [2006-11-07 04:28:44 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for your comment! I can see your point about the building - I purposely centered it in this shot as a long distance focal point, so the viewers eyes (hopefully!) go from the foreground and fall back to the building in the distance. But I can see how some people might be put off by the man-made architecture in an otherwise fully organic environment. Thanks for the contructive ctiricism.

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MarcAaron [2006-11-06 14:41:25 +0000 UTC]

Some serious contrast there great colours buddy and a nice scene.

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mesondecay In reply to MarcAaron [2006-11-07 03:57:56 +0000 UTC]

cheers, thanks for your comment! I pushed the contrast a little to darken the shadows in the rice. This seemed to also add a little 'oomph' to the piece in general. It is quite a nice scene - a lot different from the countryside back in Australia (where I come from).

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nellvixen [2006-11-06 11:22:37 +0000 UTC]

Great shot!!!

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mesondecay In reply to nellvixen [2006-11-06 12:02:45 +0000 UTC]

thanks very much - glad you like it! I took a bunch, and this one came out the best... I was playing about with a wide-angle lens and its various functions.

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Climbout [2006-10-15 03:40:31 +0000 UTC]

Oh this is very good... any PS work on it besides the frame?

I love the stamp and the green things at the bottom of your frame, a great way to enhance everything

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mesondecay In reply to Climbout [2006-10-16 02:42:11 +0000 UTC]

thanks Adam, glad you like it. I did a wee bit of PS work on it - I pushed the contrast a tiny bit to darken the shadows in the forground rice a little more. Apart from that, it's ther same as the original photo from the camera. It was a fantastic day, and just the right time to get some nice light across the top of the rice (instead of directly down through it).

Yeah, I was happy with the stamp and the korean writing as well this time (the Korean is pronounced "sal" [soft 'a' sound], meaning uncooked [raw] rice).

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KajunLens [2006-10-13 12:55:44 +0000 UTC]

my dad plows the rice fields here in southern Louisiana
(he also does soy bean and crawfish too, when in season)

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mesondecay In reply to KajunLens [2006-10-16 02:25:28 +0000 UTC]

what do the fields look like over there? I'd never seen rice fields till I came to Korea. Crawfish are what I think we Australians call either marron or yabbies. That's if they are freshwater ones.

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hellfirediva [2006-10-12 15:46:25 +0000 UTC]

Bright nice colors. I like that stamp and the interesting info about it !

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mesondecay In reply to hellfirediva [2006-10-12 15:54:09 +0000 UTC]

heya Tina - long time no see... It's funny: I just commented on a dark piece of yours that I liked very much... Glad you liked this!

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hellfirediva In reply to mesondecay [2006-10-12 15:55:35 +0000 UTC]

Yes I know , first I was slow and now I am really on a hiadous. I saw the comment, thank you ! And you are welcome

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