China/Korea 2009: intro

Being an account of my trip to Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Macau, and Seoul in fall 2009.

In early 2009 I submitted a paper to an aerospace conference in Daejeon, S. Korea to take place in October 2009. Once it was accepted, I decided that since my company was going to send me to east Asia, I may as well take advantage of it and spend a couple weeks in China as a tourist. I was locked in to whatever my company gave me for the flight from Houston to Seoul, and from there I was on my own. For budgetary reasons it was better for me to see Shanghai, then Beijing, then Hong Kong, before going back to Seoul.

Somewheres Else

My father and I had a years-long project to scan the family slide and photograph collection. The slides go back to 1965, the photos back to the early 1900s. I thought it might be interesting to show the places we've been, in particular the places that don't exist anymore in the way we photographed them, whether it's the buildings, the cars, the fashion, or whatever.

These are not professional photos, just some people with cameras documenting the sights. We've used a number of methods of scanning images, most of them relatively cheap. The original goal of our scanning project was to see what we have, so that if we later want better copies or reprints we can get those done individually. There are about 6000 slides and scanned photos dating up to 2002, which is when I got my digital camera.

The images here have only been color corrected (to some extent, using Paint Shop Pro) and are presented warts (or wings, or windows) and all.

So here, in no particular order, are pictures from somewheres else.