I luckily was able to wake up for the Suwon festival.  JJ and I stayed up late on Friday night drinking coffee and talking about Paris and our roadtrip.  I have been looking forward to the festival for a month or so now and almost pulled an all nighter, so that I would be up to be able to take pictures of the civil service exam at the fortress at 10:30.  I went to bed around 5 and woke up about 7:30.  I think I ran off of adrenalin all day.  I took the bus to Suwon and as soon as I arrived at the fortress I saw a familiar face.  I realized that a member of the Flickr in Seoul group was waiting on the exam to start as well. I had seen Derek’s work before, but had never met him.    He is a super nice guy and an awesome photographer.  You can check out some of his photography here.  This is the first time that I have really shot photos with some one who was really full of knowledge that they were willing to share.  We ending up shooting together till about 4 when I was plan wore out.  Derek, if you read this, I owe you lunch for all the knowledge today!

The festival was awesome and I will post more about it later. I just started processing the photos and look forward to trying out some new photoshop actions on them.  Here are a couple of shots from the day.

Test Takers

Test Takers

Bellydancers at the Fortress

Bellydancers at the Fortress