I'm a bit saddened by the fact that OGN has chosen to tape the Dungeon & Fighter 5th League at 2pm on Tuesdays before Proleague due to the current Batoo tournament. I attended the 4th league and photographed it as well as making friends with some of the players.
My adopted team of choice (aka. The Firebatheros of Dungeon & Fighter.) 방폭의주범 consisting of Captain Jeong Sangwoon, Shin Hyunsoo and Lee Sangmin were incredibly kind throughout the season and gave poses all the time as well as providing me with a final mini shoot (organized mainly by Sangwoon shouting people to come over and join in.) yesterday.
Normally I only provide photos, but yesterday 마켜가인 Captain Jeong Joon and Jeong Sangwoon gave a special performance of the Dungeon & Fighter song (which I'd never heard before and promptly burst into laughter whilst sitting next to a very amused Hyunsoo from 방폭의.
Their duet was accompanied by the crowd all doing the clapping routine and some arm movements. I think the VOD will be released soon, but for now I recorded it using my iriver and added photos to show the two dorks who were singing it (centre in both photos.)
Anyway, here are the photos from my last 5th league day yesterday: Special thanks to Jeong Sangwoon, Shin Hyunsoo, Lee Sangmin, Park Jeonghwan and the other members of 마켜가인.
I caught up with KTF tonight - it's snowing outside, but Woo Jeongho (Violet) was a good sport and accompanied me outside for a few photos.
Also randomly I got approached by a KTF fan who spoke perfect English - she knew who I was and also said she'd seen my work from Tl.net. This sentiment was echoed by Jeongho who asked for my url and then when I wrote it down for him he said he knows the site. So there you have it - Tl.net is famous with KTF
Sorry no boobs or gamers in this one. I've been meaning to potter around Seoul for a while and test out my camera at night - I got the opportunity a couple of days ago and it was a lot of fun despite the cold weather.
I also realized I love taking photos of food. It's like capturing the tiny details upon someone's face - only you don't have to keep shouting 'Stop giggling go.go.' whilst you're photographing it.
Anyway, I hope you like them.
**Warning for one boob on a painting - just in case your work are strict about no-paint-tits or something**
I've been getting a lot more one-on-one photoshoots with the teams these days (I have access to every team except Ace currently.) and I've been wanting to be as creative as possible with my photoshoots.
Bearing that in mind I was wondering if there are any (within reason.) types of photoshoots (no I cannot get anyone naked before you ask Scaramanga.) or specific players/player combinations/non-players anyone would like me to do?
Also a lot has changed since I last did an 'ask me' thread so if anyone wants any info on new players (irl)/the venues etc then feel free to ask.
I'm planning to compile a list of players/shoots people want to see as my new goal for the season. (That's the main reason for posting this blog.)
I know I promised Herbert photos....but, well....I lied.
Welcome back you crazy, crazy man. (Tonight mainly consisted of teasing Chalrenge for not speaking english, getting dragged out of the main stadium by him to take photos of random players and telling gogo to stop laughing *again*.)
Bonus:
The assistant coach was over seeing the shoot and oh how we laughed.
As always - Sparkyz Fighting! I'm planning to write another article like my 'Evolution of OGN Sparkyz.' detailing my experiences with the team some time this week. They are numerous and usually amusing.
I'm pretty sure a sizable proportion of the TL IRC (that den of eccentricity is my usual home.) know that I've been giving Thezerg English lessons at MBC Heroes/SKT1 fan meetings due to his request and my crazy Korean fangirl dragging me to take photos of him with pineapples (Yeom Boseong was not impressed.)
However, I'd forgotten I actually did a photo-shoot with him and Ruby (Min Chanki) a few weeks ago. It's in response to this post (from a pleasantly buff member of the community.)
That I remembered the photos - the caps being worn both belong to myself (at one point Yeongchul couldn't adjust his so I ended up having to do it along with straightening his hair. I felt weirdly like his mother.... -_-)
Anyway, I finally got round to editing the photos and decided to also share some of my other pro-gaming items. I'm a horrendously bad hoarder - so not pictured are my MBC Heroes shirts, key-chains and some other misc crap.
Rambling over - feel free to ask any questions about the various stuff. It's a mixture of official and fan made.
(I need to stop taking photos at crazy angles...)
(All 5 foot of ForGG - don't even ask how I swagged that.)
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Sadly for him - the night he turned up to pro-league with braces I'd bought him a bag of candy to say thanks for his photo shoot with me. Oh how we laughed.
Just something rather cool I noticed for the foreign Woongjin fans (all 3 of us - despite me hating their uniforms.) The Woongjin fan meeting today was insane - about 60 people turned up (some were coming for Courage so they weren't counted in this.)
Compared to the 20 people who turned up for the last meeting I went to (including the team.)
It seems like massage chairs and the return of GGplay have done wonders for the team's image here in Korea.
Oh and that thing I mentioned about changing my photo style to more 'serious' and 'bad-ass'.....yeah thanks Free -_-;