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Title
Azure Umbrella
Category
general
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c0f4fddb08ec42799e77b83568492887
Source URL
https://oia.osu.edu/2023-international-photography-exhibition/azure-umbrella
Parent URL
https://oia.osu.edu/2023-international-photography-exhibition
Crawl Time
2026-03-23T20:57:25+00:00
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Azure Umbrella

Source: https://oia.osu.edu/2023-international-photography-exhibition/azure-umbrella Parent: https://oia.osu.edu/2023-international-photography-exhibition

"Azure Umbrella"\ Location: Seoul, South Korea\ Date: June 2023\ Photographer: Ryan McGraw @theryanmcgraw @ryanmcgrawphoto\ Affiliation: Undergraduate Student\ Azure Umbrella\ Category: Places\ Award: People’s Choice and Honorable Mention\ 2023 International Photography Exhibition\ \ “I took this photo during my academic year abroad in South Korea. I had just gotten back to my apartment from a large electronics store in Seoul where I had bought a new zoom lens for my camera. After attaching the lens to my camera I pointed it outside my 6th floor apartment window while zooming in on various signs and people walking down on the streets below. It was a cloudy day and raining, and I noticed that almost everybody had a black or transparent umbrella except for one man who was carrying a bright, azure blue umbrella. I was able to quickly snap a photo of him before he rounded the corner and disappeared from view. When I opened the image in Lightroom I wanted to highlight the gloomy atmosphere of that day and how the man carrying the azure umbrella in particular stood out amidst the sea of monochrome umbrellas. I’m really happy with how this photo turned out especially because I shot it almost completely by chance.”