Another Side of True Appearance of where I live.

in culture •  7 years ago 

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I have my family in Seoul. And my office is located in at 2 and half hours distance from Seoul. I am commuting by car every weekend.

It was more than hundred times to see same boring scene out of car window.
That was the continuation of cars and grey buildings.

But suddenly the idea, this boring scene could be the real appearance of my city, hit my head.
So I took the photos of what it looked like not special.

I began to take the photos of the highway.

The scenary on the highway seemed to be not specific, but that is one of our real daily life.
This ordinary and common scene is a true appearance of our city.

Finally I arrived at Seoul.
This is real appearance of Seoul

heavy traffics

and people by the street

I took some more photos by the river.

When I took the photos, I didn't think that the photos of the road gave me any special meaning.
But these photos were impressive to me.
These unemotional photos seemed to tell me something about this place where I belong.

Each city has it's real face.

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An interesting post today, @slowwalker, to see the exceptional beneath the appearance of the ordinary.

The quaint ruins of walls and temples didn't seem quaint to the ancient peoples - to them, they were modern and part of their daily life.

While we may marvel at the huge, hewn stones of a wall, to the ancient Koreans that was simply part of the humdrum scenery of their daily life.

Technology is moving so quickly that in a few short years the phones and cameras we use to take photos and the computers we view and post them on will seem antiquated and 'quaint' as well.

With the advent of autonomous cars, the cityscape so familiar to us will change. Large downtown parking lots and parking garages will disappear.

With each new invention the world about us will subtly change until the photos you posted today will not look 'ordinary' to us, but quaint relics of a bygone time.

It is difficult to stand back and look at your own time and culture as if through the eyes of a stranger - the closest we come to that experience is visiting another country and looking back on our own culture from that point of view.

As I said, an interesting post today, @slowwalker.

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Neat photography, thanks for sharing;)

The truth is, we never stop and see what is around us. I use to take for granted my home in Colombia. Now every time I return to Colombia, I enjoy looking at the mountains and the people that define what Colombia really is. There us nothing like the city or country that you are from and how the culture can define you as a person.

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slowwalker, it's really nice knowing more about you
I love the your idea

The scenary on the highway seemed to be not specific, but that is one of our real daily life

So interesting!!!

Nice shots uploaded by you. Traffic , Beautiful scenes on the way to Office all are the general appearances.....But still nice photography

Nice, clean and organized city, but are there many traffic jam occurred?

Very interesting I see your routine journey. I find peace in your photos. thanks for sharing @slowwalker

@slowwalker, nice post wonderful photography
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I really enjoying discovering the roads of your country my friend. They are actually very large, in my country the largest main road has 2 ways on each directions, that's all!
Your's is 3 times larger than that of my country. Wow!

the post is interesting, reflects the personality in helping others

big families are big people who support ki
I love family.

you r absolutely right. just like people, cities too have their real faces

Nice man and wow thats a crazy commute, and its good to see you making the best of it. Its always nice seeing the lifestyle of people around the world keep up the great work man!

Thank you for sharing. Very nice to see the pictures of your homeland.

It's still a beautiful city and roads compared to many other developed cities around the world. Beautiful pictures btw

You have so much traffic there. The photos are nice. I follow you now.

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nice post sir

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Nice & Clean city but with heavy traffic ;-)

when it comes to working away from the family and makes travel tedious is frustrating, but it's great that you can make the best of yourself to see the positive side of your environment, very good photos, thanks for sharing!

Wow, Seoul is looking awesome. We are spending a lot of time in traffic...

something that is often done is boring, but I see your trip photo to seoul, looks not jammed, very clean and beautiful river view money as well ....

Well done showing us a slice of your life and the life of this city.

Nice post @slowwalker

HAhaha same story, i drive 4 hours a day both ways for office, but never thought of how to make it interesting.

You do it on weekends though only 😢 jealous

Beautiful photos , I like seoul and will love to visit

Just a parfect click ....and pice ful coiuntry

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It's true each city has it's real face... At least yours seems beautiful and organized! Where I come from, one can only roam these streets angry at the local government. Sad indeed.

Thanks for sharing 💙

So interesting very nice thank you for sharing

If u think that's traffic u haven't seen Miami my brother.

This city seems to be an amazing one never stops :)
Thanks for sharing these incredible pics :)

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