#20 - Damas Diaries No. 1

It’s taken more than 30 years but I’m finally a proud car-owner. To celebrate I took a road trip south along the coast to go car camping, shooting 35mm along the way on the Nikon F6. If you somehow found this blog post before seeing the video, the trip is immortalized in the finest definition YouTube has to offer here.

I’m happy to share some of the images from the trip. I’m including a bunch that didn’t fit the video, so this is the only place you’re likely to see them. Enjoy!

I kicked off the trip at a small dock south of Incheon. It was surrounded by factories, some hovering over the ocean in the fog like ghosts.

I stopped off at a small farming village. The only person I spoke to said I needed to pay him for a photo. I declined.

At a quiet rest stop there was a room glowing blue in the afternoon sun. The little holes in the wall looked like windows to a furnace.

I finally found a spot to camp for the night. I got to wake up to the smell of the ocean and the weeping of the gulls.

I spent the next day driving around the whole territory. There were lots of abandoned homes, and plenty interesting areas to explore.

These last few images were from a personal mission I’m not going to talk about here. I’m happy to say though that the mission was a success.

If you haven’t yet, go see the video from this trip here!