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While I was walking around in Chungmuro with John, we found this random toy camera shop called Toy Camera. Since the store is off the main street and also on the third floor on a rustic building, it might not be easy to locate if you don’t try hard enough, however, you’re good to go as soon as you see this door with a Lomo sign.

I’ve had a few toy cameras around but never had one I got super excited about. Diana+ was close enough but I never got to learn how to take decent shots with it. Then I thought I would give a try to Holga GCFN, the one with a glass lens unlike most of the toy cameras with plastic lenses. I was quite excited when I learned this shop had it, and had to go back to get one a few weeks later.

This shop has an extensive list of toy cameras as well as some nice films at good prices. If you’re into photography and look for some toys to play with, go to Chungmuro and check out this store. Definitely worth a try. The marketing manager of this shop, Justin, is a friendly guy and he speaks fairly good English as well so you will be fine even if you don’t speak Korean.

The address is 3F, 58-2, Chungmuro 3-ga, Jung-gu, Seoul and the phone number is +82(2)2285.5640.

I picked up an iPad a few days ago and I’ve been enjoying the amazing screen quality of this device. The main purpose of me getting an iPad was that, as I do more of freelance work nowadays, I thought it would be a great way to present my design and photography work to clients. Whatever they did to the screen of this device, it makes things look hundreds and thousands times better.

Anyway, I found sometime today to make some wallpapers for the iPad with some minimal photos I took in the past and wanted to share with you whoever out there want to have some decent wallpapers for your iPad. My boyfriend has been making wallpapers for desktops, laptops, iPhones, and iPads and sharing them on his website forever and built up his reputation for it. I thought I would make some to share as well while I enjoy looking at my photos on the iPad and hope you would enjoy as well.

These are more of thumbnails for you to see and if you want to download to use on your iPad, click here.

John was kind enough to let me use his Hasselblad while he was visiting Korea. I finally managed to scan my very first roll with Hasselblad yesterday. The entire experience of holding Hasselblad, looking through the amazingly beautiful view finder, and hearing the loud but complete sound when the shutter is pressed is something else. Now I see the result of it, I can’t wait to get one for myself someday.

The grey and nostalgic weather yesterday reminded me of the day I was wandering around in Porto, Portugal. Such a lovely place to take a walk along the river, stop by at some random outdoor cafes for a glass of Port wine, get lost in allies where the buildings are tiled with beautiful Azulejo, and have a lovely dinner with a new friend at an awesome Moroccan restaurant by the river. I went through my photo archive to remember the days and wanted to share some of my favorite shots with you.

Sara & Hisung are very special clients and the sweetest couple I’ve worked with. It’s been a while since I did the engagement photo shoot with them and I finally managed to have time to process all the photos from it. I decided to share some of my favorites from the session.

Here’s the link Sara’s Engagement for more photos from the session.