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Photograph · 1920 × 865

Pavilion in the city

A quiet piece of old Seoul framed by water, lotus leaves and office blocks.

A traditional Korean pavilion and curved footbridge stand beside a lotus pond with modern Seoul beyond.
A traditional Korean pavilion and curved footbridge stand beside a lotus pond with modern Seoul beyond. Seoul, South Korea

Field note

The bit outside the frame.

What I like here is not the contrast between old and new so much as how comfortably they occupy the same frame.

The bridge does most of the work, pulling the eye from the pond to the pavilion and then quietly dropping the skyline in behind it.