[Leica] A Walk in the Rainforest

[Sonny Carter]

Your bicycle is something you can spot from a mile away, sort of like a
poppa penguin can spot his chick. ;-)

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 9:12 PM Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <
lug at leica-users.org> wrote:

> Luis, Nathan
> Thanks for looking
> Cheers
> Jayanand
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> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 10:16 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
> wrote:
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> > 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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> > Nathan Wajsman
> > Alicante, Spain
> > http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/>
> > http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu
> > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <
> > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
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> > Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <
> > http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator>
> > YNWA
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> > > On 24 Apr 2018, at 05:38, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <
> > lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > 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
> > it
> > > is estimated that a million acres of virgin forest are still lost every
> > > year.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > Most
> > > of the photographs are at relatively high ISO because of the paucity of
> > > light that filters through to the forest floor.
> > >
> > > This is the folder containing the set:
> > >
> > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Sabah/Rainforest/
> > >
> > > Please see LARGE
> > >
> > > Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > Jayanand
> > >
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Sonny
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