Pictures Only Please!

[P.C.]

Sometimes I miss my good ol fashioned Pentax.  Setting apertures, and light meters seems to have given a better sense of what I was doing.  I know the new digitals have the same....but I'm too lazy to learn it all over again.   I use my tripod a lot, because even though I have the 'motion stopper'...that's a technical term. ...I still get the little indicator that there is too much motion.  

[van_guy]

P.C. wrote:
Sometimes I miss my good ol fashioned Pentax.  Setting apertures, and light meters seems to have given a better sense of what I was doing.  I know the new digitals have the same....but I'm too lazy to learn it all over again.   I use my tripod a lot, because even though I have the 'motion stopper'...that's a technical term.[img style="font-style: italic;" src="vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/12.gif[/img] ...I still get the little indicator that there is too much motion.
 
 PC I'm with you - I used a Pentax K1000 (automatic nuthin') for years and have taken some of my best shots with it.  I'm gegining to get a handle on the new school digital stuff - but it is taking a while.
 
 Using a tripod is good, you tend to take more time with the photo - making sure that you have what you want in the pic and leaving out what you want out - i do a better job at ensuring the horizin is horizontal etc...  
 

 

[P.C.]

I used to be into serious photography....I've forgotten more than I know now.  We even had our own darkroom, which was boodles of fun.  Years of relying on instamatics to capture children's 'flash moments' rendered me lazy.  Now that I want to get back to taking some better quality photographs, it's not just a refresher course....it's all different.  My pea-like brain can't handle it all.

[van_guy]

P.C. wrote:
I used to be into serious photography....I've forgotten more than I know now.  We even had our own darkroom, which was boodles of fun.  Years of relying on instamatics to capture children's 'flash moments' rendered me lazy.  Now that I want to get back to taking some better quality photographs, it's not just a refresher course....it's all different.  My pea-like brain can't handle it all.
 
 PC.  The new SLR digitals can act a bit like the old school SLR's but they are a bit different.  On the positive side it is much much easier  / faster to correct screw ups etc...  Like the night shot that i took - i didn't get the horizon very good - all i had was a tiny tripod and so I rotated and cropped the photo in 10 seconds to correct my mistake - so the new technology definately has advantages.
 
 I have faith that your pea like brain can expand to such a size as to take in the new digital era.
 
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 [span style="text-decoration: underline;"][/span]Pretty sure this is a burrowing owl as there are no trees in the Gobi desert for this guy to hang out in ...


 

[P.C.]

Oh wow !  Is he ever purdy !!!!  Nice pic Van Guy....I like it.  How big is that lil guy ?  He looks tall....but can't really tell.

[P.C.]

I wonder what that plant is in front of the rock.  Do you know ?

[van_guy]

  Michel.

I've been looking for these photos for ever.  I KNOW you will like this.

I found this in the southern gobi desert - near the chinese border.  To the best of my knowledge I was the first person to see this for a long long time.  It has been dated as bronze age by a archeologist from ulaan batar.  I took the archeo around and showed him dozens of others that i found as well.  There is now a small shrine where this photo was taken.  The guy is my friend Dashdiva - he was my driver and friend for a couple of years while i was there.


 

[van_guy]

 P.C. wrote:
[div style="font-style: italic;"]Oh wow !  Is he ever purdy !!!!  Nice pic Van Guy....I like it.  How big is that lil guy ?  He looks tall....but can't really tell.[/div]
Quite small - he's only 4-6 inches tall - the "tree" behind him is a shrub that the camels eat.
 

[van_guy]

 Mongolian saddle

I cracked my tailbone on one of these babies.
Camel hair on wood.




 

[van_guy]

Wild horses

100's of them stampeding across the desert.
even if my client didn't pay me i would go back to this place just to watch thee guys run.
simply life changing.



 

[van_guy]

 If anyone thinks they want to go to Mongolia - please do the land is wonderful, people are EXTRAORDINARY, however under no circumstances wrestle them especially this guy .... they will tear you apart like a twig.



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[P.C.]

Cool pics !!!  Michel is going to drool.

  That's one teeny tiny lil owl.  Too cute.

[P.C.]

Those wild horses look like little donkeys.  That would sure be something to see.

  I envy you your travels Van Guy.

[van_guy]

 P.C. wrote:
[div style="font-style: italic;"]Those wild horses look like little donkeys.  That would sure be something to see.[/div] [div style="font-style: italic;"] [/div] I envy you your travels Van Guy.

Technically they are a "wild ass" - but that just sounds funny.  They are one of the most primitive of all the horse family they run more like a caribou than a horse, with their head cocked to one side

They are amazingly fast and nearly impossible to photograph.  They are very skiddish.  

People say that but it's not all peaches and cream - the wind storms in the Gobi are lethal - or imagine hiking across the desert by yourself in 50 degree heat.  Trust me the grass is always greener on the other side - but it has been an adventure to be sure