A lot of the images I am posting from Jeju are quite out of my comfort zone. It was a family holiday so I was photographing on the hoof, so to speak. No real plan other than a few sites I wanted to explore. Even the rocks are pulling me between colour, black and white and shades in between.
When it comes to more obscure ideas it may be a lost cause. Other people do ‘grasses’ and they look cool. Mine look a bit yukky.
Here the idea was to have the orange in the road sign echoed by the autumnal foliage behind.
And why not try to make a flame out of an aquatic plant?
So if all else fails I can always resort to toilet humour. It took me a while to understand what this sign was about.
And for getting this far, have a bird as a consolation prize!
And that is probably the end of Jeju. And possibly me. We shall see…….
All downhill from here 
Nice set! Columnar basalt – the same the world over, yet always interesting and exotic. The B&W shots of those formations are very nice, and I like the grass images too.
All of the pictures were wonderful, Andrew, except the phallic fishing picture. Or at least that’s how it seemed to me.
The basalt columns are a fantastic subject – what a gorgeous playground! Reminds me of the ones in Iceland 🙂
I go for the B&W version for having more atmosphere – it looks much more interesting to me due to the flat light.
The rock formations are beautiful in any color. I l really like sepia tones.The grass pic is excellent with the back lighting. And I believe the bird is a Blue Rock Thrush. i made that one a favorite over on Flickr a few days ago or so? Beautiful bird and magnificient captures in both poses that I have seen thus far. Maybe not the Blue Thrush but unless my eyes deceive me, the IDs appear to be the same. All total, I think you had a great holiday with Ms Hall and produced some fine photography for your followers to gape, gawk, ooh and, awh over. 🙂
You win the prize, Yvonne, Blue Rock Thrush it is. And as you liked the sepia I have had another go today. Thanks for your kind words.
Well done Andrew. All good photos, very good. The toilet picture a bit of a puzzle. Is the fishing rod a hint? Glad to see Lottie understands it. 😉
Well you clearly have better eyesight that the rest of us, Gerard or perhaps you read Korean. I fell for it hook, line and sinker.
I really like the B&W of that first image Andrew, very nicely done.
Those rocks are fascinating me, I keep looking at them and trying to imagine their size. Just looking at the rocks, they don’t look too big, then looking at the surf and the tide line they look enormous. It’s like an optical illusion.
The bird is beautiful, what is it?
Blue Rock Thrush, Vicky 🙂
Basalt columns, I think. Beautiful. Did geomorphology for a bit. Amazing formations.
Basalt columns indeed, Jenny.
There’s something fishy about that toilet picture.
I am fascinated by the rock formations. I haven’t seen ones like that before. I really like the colour combination in the rock close up. The blues of the sea complement the blue-greys of the rocks. Very pleasing.
You didn’t identify our bird…not a Norwegian Blue? 🙂
Its a Non-Norwegian Blue[Rock Thrush], Rod. Quite possibly pining for the fjords. Does not prefer kipping on its back.
I’m alway up for toilet humour as you know, maybe that’s why people call me Potty Lottie? Moving swiflty on from toilets and on to the photographs – It’s a tricky one this and I can see why it was a hard decision as to whether to do b&w or the colour – the rocks look great in both. What amazing formations, it’s almost as though they’ve been sculpted specially by a team of highly skilled stonemasons. Extraordinary, isn’t nature wonderful? I don’t agree about your grasses being ‘yukky’ they look fabulous to me, beautiful tones and light. And as for the bird, nobody does birds better than you, Andrew.
unique!
great picture!
Always enjoy a little clean toilet humor. And those rocks look great in monochrome, imo…
Nice pictures, Andrew. I have seen rocks like that in Northern Ireland, I bet these are in Asia? I find it looks good to mix colours and B&W in a post. PS. Your Like-button is not there..
Yes Bente, the rocks are in Korea but as Bob Thompson pointed out we have similar formations in Hong Kong, very close to where I live in fact. (I deactivated the Like button.)
The rock formations are the same as seen in Sai Kung area