I have been way too lazy for the past month (or almost two). Do I decided stop wasting my time for doing nothing and start exploring at least Seoul. Some time ago I founded Seoul City Blog which lists events happening around Seoul. From there I spotted that in Seoul Arts Center there is going to be National Geographic Exhibition and decided to go to see it. So this weekend for a time for great photos.

Finding Seoul Arts Center was easy, getting off the right metro station and then just following good signs. But after we got there, there were small problems. They did advertised exhibition and nice enough, put even arrows so we knew which direction to go. But, that was all. There was a some notice putted on the posters but only English word there was “Notice” and that’s all. Well, after a while looking around we found a desk that looked like ticket selling point, asked for NG tickets and then we learned that those were sold outside. Well, good enough, short walking to outside and then realization that Seoul is a big city, there was a long line for buying a tickets. It started to look like that we weren’t going to get inside to see exhibition anytime fast. But then we got lucky. After queuing for a while, couple foreigners stopped to us and asked if we want to buy their tickets as they run out of time. And at that point I remembered the small fact that Koreans like queueing (clearly), in Expo, they were letting people inside Korean pavilion only certain amount of people at once, in Lantern Festival, same thing, and as you might guessed, same thing here. So after waiting to have a chance to buy ticket, then it was required to go to outside of exhibition entrance to get queuing number to get actually inside. And a this point buying tickets from those two foreigners who had already both tickets and queueing number started to be more than great opportunity, so we bought them and left a queue.

It still meant that we needed to wait about an hour to actually get inside. But when we got in, it was worth it. I knew that NG photos are one of the best ones of nature but seeing those there, they were just great. One after another, just amazing photos. And it was nice to spot a photo from Finland (from Lapland, with Aurora Borealis and snow of course). Some photos were of course much better than others, my favorite was definitely one really cute photo with polar bear with it babies. One really funny photo was a photo of bear who was getting its dinner by just waiting salmon to jump to its mouth

All photos were just great and I’m happy that I spotted this opportunity and more, that I took and used this opportunity to see great photos. Seeing all these photos also gave me a little bit more motivation which hopefully leads to better photos. Not NG level but who knows…