[Leica] A Walk in the Rainforest

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Luis, Nathan
Thanks for looking
Cheers
Jayanand

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 10:16 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
wrote:

> You did well in the circumstances! I especially like Fern and Droplets.
> Looking forward to the tree canopy shots.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> > On 24 Apr 2018, at 05:38, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <
> lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
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> > I have just returned from a trip to Sabah in the Malaysian part of
> Borneo,
> > in an organized foray into a tropical rainforest. The area I was in has
> > been decimated by a century and a half of rapacious logging for hardwood,
> > supplanted by plantations catering to the human race's insatiable
> appetite
> > for, initially, rubber and now, cheap palm oil. Malaysia has, thankfully,
> > put the brakes on to some extent, but the pillage goes on unchecked in
> > neighboring Indonesia, which has sovereignty over most of Borneo, where
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> > is estimated that a million acres of virgin forest are still lost every
> > year.
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> > The rainforest ecology is a race for the treetops, where you get the sun,
> > so most life exists 150-200 feet off the ground in the canopy, and very
> > much like the Amazon ecosystem, the forest floor consists of poor soil
> and
> > is relatively lifeless. The great mass of life in these areas are birds
> and
> > insects as the lack of nourishing ground level vegetation leads to fewer
> > mammals. Even there, the two iconic apes of these forests, the Orangutan
> > and Gibbon are arboreal, and seldom descend to the ground.
> >
> > All movement through the forests are on foot through fairly undulating
> > terrain, on wet, slushy trails - after all, what would you expect in a
> > rainforest but regular rain?This being so, photography turns out to be a
> > bit of a challenge, balancing a long lens pointed at the canopy a few
> > hundred feet above you through a cluster of leaves, trying to capture a
> > fast and constantly moving hornbill,  gibbon or orangutan, while at the
> > same time, trying not to lose your footing! :-)
> >
> > This is the background for the first set of the trip, which is to try and
> > show the smaller pleasures to photograph during walks in the dark and
> > unbearably humid rainforest! All photographs taken with the Nikon D850 or
> > Nikon D500 cameras with the AF 300mm f4 or AF 70-200 f4 lens mounted.
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> > of the photographs are at relatively high ISO because of the paucity of
> > light that filters through to the forest floor.
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> > This is the folder containing the set:
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> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Sabah/Rainforest/
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> > Please see LARGE
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> > Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Jayanand
> >
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