[Leica] A Walk in the Rainforest

[Sonny Carter]

Sorry I mixed the threads!  The iPad mail threads are confusing sometimes,

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 9:16 PM Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Your bicycle is something you can spot from a mile away, sort of like a
> poppa penguin can spot his chick. ;-)
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> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 9:12 PM Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <
> lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
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>> 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>
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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
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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
>> > it
>> > > 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.
>> > 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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