Summer of Changdeokgung
2015 2016 2017
We see green every day, but it is difficult to express its color accurately. It is more difficult to capture them in photos because the colors you see with your eyes and the colors that remain in your memory are different. In particular, the pictures of Changdeokgung Palace, which is built in harmony with the surrounding nature and thickly wooded, come out very differently depending on how you express green. I wanted to express the deep green of Changdeokgung Palace, which is deep but not dark and heavy but not sticky.
There is no bad weather to take pictures. Once, I visited Changdeokgung Palace on a day when it literally poured rain. The wind was so strong that it whipped raindrops here and there. But that harsh weather allowed me to see Changdeokgung Palace quite differently from usual; nay, it instead allowed me to "hear" differently. As clear water flowed ceaselessly from Buyongji pond and added sound to the garden, it felt like entering a secret garden. The area of Okryucheon Stream, the deepest part of the rear garden, was also full of summer sounds.
"As I sit in a high pavilion and hear the sound of spring water, it sounds completely clear as my heart."
King Jeongjo left this poem when he visited Okryucheon Stream and saw the spring water forming a small waterfall. I walk quietly through the forest of Huwon, Changdeokgung Palace one summer day and try to fill my dry heart with burgeoning green as King Jeonjo did.
083. Summer scene of Seongjeonggak Pavilion | 2015
085. Summer scenery around Injeongjeon | 2017
085. Summer scenery around Injeongjeon | 2017
085. Summer scenery around Injeongjeon | 2017
097. Pyeomusa Pavilion, the library often used by Crown Prince Hyomeyong | 2017