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Hi again, Tumblr~

Life has changed a lot since I stopped updating. The most significant change: I stopped taking photos, or at least, I stopped going out of my way to take “professional” photography. But I’ve been taking a lot of pics lately and have been posting a few brand new pics on Flickr. See my profile for the link or the post before this one. Also, the iphone camera has improved a great deal since 2012, wink wink. My camera equipment has not changed and I still use old faithful, the Kiss x4 (I think). But I reserve use of that camera for special occasions. For my own amusement, I will keep on posting, at least when I have time. I don’t know who will care to read this, oh well.

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Coronado beach by therealrealjd

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My goal in life is to find and photograph all Pieta sculptures of the world.

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I need this case in my life!

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High School Girls - Hein-Kuhn Oh 

South Korea (2003)

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I love these~

It's actually crazy how students just back in 2009 were still wearing their skirts just barely above the knees (if they were even that short). Now they're worn like miniskirts.

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Plan plan plan!

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Dak galbi

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Inside Yarm Yarm

Nauseatingly cute deco

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Romantic Production - Butterfly Kiss

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Bulgwang cheon. I consider it a gem of my district. I would walk from my school which was right next to Goosan Station to Eungam station where the stream begins, and continue down the stream all the way to World Cup Stadium, and then take either the bus or the subway back to Yeonshinnae. This stream was the first place I saw cherry blossoms in Korea. I think it's just as beautiful in the summertime <3

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Your Attention Is Riveted By Pictures Of People

Second only to movement (animation, video), pictures of a human face capture attention in any medium, including websites. Pictures of a human face not only capture attention, but keep the attention on that part of the screen even when the picture goes away.

We start young — With some creative experiments it has been proven that babies as young as 4 months old will look at pictures of other people more than pictures of other objects or of animals. And this preference for faces continues throughout the life span. It seems to be part of our brain wiring.

The eyes have it – Research using eye tracking shows that when you show people a picture of the face of a person, their attention goes mostly to the eyes. If you want to capture someone’s attention at a website, showing a picture of a person who is looking right into the camera captures the most attention.

Special unconscious brain processing – The latest research implies that there is a part of the brain that is focused on recognizing human faces, as well as interpreting the emotion that is on the human face. Fearful and angry faces get the most and quickest attention, but any face gets a lot of attention. The circuitry in the brain from this specialized spot is believe to go right to the amygdala, which processes emotions. So it is fast, since it doesn’t have to go through the normal route that most vision goes through (the cortex and conscious mind). This means that you are processing faces unconsciously.

You look where the eyes look — Some practitioners have been investigating whether where the eyes are looking in the picture affects where your eye looks when you look at the picture. James Breeze has an interesting blog post and some eye tracking data on this. The eye tracking data shows that if a web site has a picture of a person seemingly “looking” at a certain part of the screen or page, then the person viewing that picture will tend to look at the same spot.

Bottom line advice for your website – Use pictures to capture and hold attention at your website. For the most effect, use pictures that are close-up shots and where the person is looking right at the camera. If you want people to look at something in particular on the page besides the picture, then have the person in the photo “looking” at that spot on the page.

Pretty relevant to street photography imho.

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Milan. My friends were disappointed when we went to Milan for one day. One of them said we could've skipped it altogether in our Italy trip without regrets, but I disagree. I wanted to spend a lot more time in Milan. It's cosmopolitan, it's bustling with life, and it's a really interesting mixture of an old and modern city. The only disappointing thing was that we didn't have a chance to explore it. That's one negative aspect about whirlwind-style tours - you barely have time to see everything. I'm not sure if I will ever return to Italy, but I'd like to dedicate more time exploring Milan.