Travel pictures

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Originally posted by SC:
So, as the thread is travel and we've had a bit of urban glitz, how about being high up in the Indian Himalaya......In a truck ?!

Steve,

Those are very powerful images. Thanks for sharing them with us.

Haim

The old and the new in Xiamen:

Only just noticed your photos Steve. Wow, fabulous!

Yours are very good too Peter.

Been waiting to see your China pics Peter...You must have loads...Come on !

Is the Star Ferry still going in HK ? That was a people rush...!

Steve.


(Many thanks chaps! I tend not to dip into the photo related stuff here, but got carried away there...!.....Many thanks also Count (that felt like being back at the LCP 15 years ago!) - I won't get into a composition conversation on a HiFi forum (!) but as for the contrast, you would have to see the fibres... - these are just lo-res 'leftovers' from a digital projection some years ago where I had to compensate for the cheap projector - Don't really feel like putting anything higher out there for the taking on a public website...! )

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I won't get into a composition conversation on a HiFi forum (!)

It was just my preference for the composition of one of your shots. I have a few personal rules about composition whilst looking at pictures and find it difficult to see it any other way.

Here's the opposite angle option of your shot (please don't look at the Photoshop work to increase image area, it was done in less than 5 mins!). I would be interested to know your opinion.


P.S. Please don't take offence, I'm commenting on your shots because they're good.

It works for sure - I actually prefer the dynamic !

Hindsight is a wonderful thing...but I think I only took a few frames of that scene whilst I was up on the roof (I had something else going on in the opposite direction)....I think at the time, just tilting the horizon was something of a 'no no' for me, so I'm still surprised I use this image in the edit at times....Must have been rare Kratochvil disease moment..!

Steve.

p.s. No offence taken at all !, I didn't intend to imply otherwise... ....I just very rarely get involved in what are fairly subjective issues around photography, especially on the net...!

Great photos SC! (Doesn't give us 'mere mortals' much of a chance though! )

Steve,

great photos! I rather like the tilted perspective on that photo. It exaggerates the feeling of teetering right on the edge of the mountain road. Looking at it makes me uneasy, so it works! Having taken a motorbike along similar roads in the Himalaya many years back, I know the feeling well...

JWM - Nahhhh...! We all have skills and strengths.....I can 1/2 use a camera and find my way around a Mac, but that's about it...!....I certainly know sod all about HiFi...!

Richard - Wow, you've biked it up there..?!

Must have been amazing.....Having sat in the 'relative' comfort of the truck cabs, I can only imagine what opening up the throttle on a bike must be like !....I certainly know the trucks didn't give much room for bikes and cars on those passes...

Yup, was back in '90. A friend and I had both just split with our long-term girlfriends and decided we would go and spend a couple of months in the Himalaya. It was a great trip. Every day something new; we made friends with the good, got into scrapes with the bad, and witnessed the ugly.

After a few weeks trekking we returned to Kathmandu and took a couple of 250cc scramblers to try and ride to Tibet. We didn't quite make it... But that's for another time!

As for the trucks and busses, they don't give much room for anything! Sheer Kamikaze stuff! The accidents we saw were numerous and quite horrific. And the dust... I can still taste it. Or perhaps that's just the anti-giardia tablets

I took hundreds of pictures with my trusty old Nikon EM. Most of them in B&W on tri-X. It got nicked at gunpoint but thanks to some quick moves from my friend we managed to nick it back again!

Nothing quite like a bike though for that feeling of mission and freedom...

Great TATA pics Steve, thanks.

Best, Chris

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Steve,

great photos! I rather like the tilted perspective on that photo. It exaggerates the feeling of teetering right on the edge of the mountain road

Fair point Richard, but I have rules and I must abide by my own rules, or I'll only tell myself off later.

I was brought up on using Hasselblads and 5x4 cameras and prefer to compose images on a screen rather than through a viewfinder. Many, many times, I've shot what I thought was a good image with a 35mm slr, only to find that as soon as it appears on my computer monitor, I think "why did I shoot it like that?"

I did consider a 5x4 for the story Count, but it didn't quite seem the right bit of kit for the job at hand...!

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Originally posted by JWM:
Great photos SC! (Doesn't give us 'mere mortals' much of a chance though! )

Yeah, I know James, but we can still try I'm not saying my LX2 is the best out there..... far from it, but it does travel in my pocket everywhere I go. So for me, it's the right piece of kit for the job.

I took this on the Queensland coast, shortly before getting the ferry to Fraser Island. we'd driven about 30 miles along a deserted beach to get to this point.

KR

Peter

last weekend going from Joshua Tree back to Palm Spgs, desert was in bloom after a "wet" year. I had to see it before I got tied down.

iPhone images are really great, I hardly use my digital camera any more. But then I can't do some of the extra stuff either.

Pretty interesting for a big lilly

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iPhone images are really great, I hardly use my digital camera any more. But then I can't do some of the extra stuff either.

If one ever needed proof that its the photographer not the camera! Nice.

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Originally posted by mudwolf:
iPhone images are really great, I hardly use my digital camera any more. But then I can't do some of the extra stuff either.

Pretty interesting for a big lilly

Am I alone in thinking they look like cheerleaders in a Dr Seuss book?
I need help...

Or slightly exotic Wicker Men?

Something a little different - Roads over the river in all directions - Brisbane

Meanwhile, close by - quite a contrast

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Originally posted by Cymbiosis:
Meanwhile, close by - quite a contrast

Many a drunken coupling negotiated on that boat (not by me) around Xmas time at the office parties. It is a floating beer barn.

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Originally posted by winkyincanada:

Many a drunken coupling negotiated on that boat (not by me) around Xmas time at the office parties. It is a floating beer barn.

LOL! I thought it looked like a nice place to hang out

For me activities were restricted to a bottle of water and an ice cream. It was only 4 in the afternoon!

KR

Peter

Thanks Clay and Nero, I guess my many years in art pays off. My teachers always said I had a great composition, but it took a lot of classes and one with studies from the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, great teacher too. It is the eye and the right moment, had to get to the desert as it was a rainy winter. Lower desert was bloomed out and 15 degrees hotter.

Yes the Joshuas are a strange plant. Not much root system as some just fall over. I see a shorter yucca in chaparral driving around LA and they have beautiful spikes of white flowers 10 feet tall at this time. The spines are really nasty, Indians used them to sew hides when they stripped them out of the leaf with a long string attached.