Lunar Eclipse in Korea (South, the good one).
Oct. 8. I would've posted them sooner, but I'm new here and just found this group. 90mm telescope and D800E. Each image is 9 stacked exposures. Some people stack dozens or even hundreds, but meh.
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These are excellent photos.
My favorite is the second one.......it positively looks spherical.
But they are all wonderful.
I hope you will make us a habit and have some fun too.
Glad you like them. Now that I've found this group, I'll definitely visit it every day. 
We're gearing up for the November photo contest and maybe you'll feel like entering!
I entered in September and won it, so I got to run the October contest.
This is one of the friendliest groups.
They're monthly themed; does that mean that the photos have to be taken during that month? (I could probably find that out without asking, couldn't I?) 
And no, the photos don't have to be taken during that month. The one I won with wasn't.
The ones you don't like, you just hit delete!
Oh, and here's a link to the winner's thread from September: I thought you might like to see what I did.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025555698
Well deserved win! That's a fantastic image! Now I'm not sure that I'd have anything worth putting in a contest. DU has some really skilled photogs... 
Most of my pictures are OK, and not as good as this one was.
It was a very lucky shot and also, the Antelope Canyon is one of those places where it's almost impossible to take a bad shot.
Once the entries start coming in for the Nov contest, you'll get a very good idea of what people do here.
Don't sell yourself short!
I love that smiley, BTW...
I didn't get into photography until I was already over here, so pretty much everything I post will be of Korea or things in Korea. Once I get a feel for how things work here, I'll post some. 
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Nice soft muted colors & composition...What is the bowl, and the thing that seems to be looking out of it? Dinner?
I have one I wanted to share with you...
It's just a place for drinking water. Almost every temple has at least one place where you can get 약수, which translates as 'medicine water.' There's a belief that the water you drink from that sort of place has healing properties.
I see you found a village totem! Where did you run across that?
Here's a close-up of the medicine water thingy:
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So is he a Buddhist monk? I'm afraid I don't much about Korean spirituality!
The totem is at the Korean Bell of Friendship which is in San Pedro, CA. The bell is in a pavilion that Korea gave to the US in 1976 to celebrate the Bicentennial and the friendship between the to countries. There were two totems, but the female one was removed to repair heavy rain and termite damage. I just found out they are making two new ones to replace these, that are more weather resilient. So I don't think this one will be there much longer.
I visited that area last January - it is a beautiful place. Unfortunately when I was there it was being refurbished and was all covered up!
But I'll be down there again a a month or so and will see it again. There's a wikipedia page on it if you're interested.
This is what it looked like when I saw it.
Yeah, that's at a Buddhist temple. About 20~25% of Koreans are Buddhist, a little more than that Christian and about 1/2 claim no religion. That said, a lot of people still follow traditions related to folk religions, whether they're actual adherents or not.
Totems are still pretty easy to find around smaller villages (not to mention tourist locations). At first, I assumed they were there to scare off bad spirits or something. Later, I read that they're there to remind people coming into the village proper to behave themselves. The ugly faces are said to represent ugly behavior that is unwelcome. It's not too unusual to find phallic-shaped ones. Not sure what that's all about, to be honest.
I was riding my motorcycle around this spring and found a couple:
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