Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/04/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. ;-) > > 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 >> >> 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. >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Nathan >> > >> > 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/ >> < >> > http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> >> > Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator < >> > http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> >> > YNWA >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > 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 >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > Leica Users Group. >> > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Leica Users Group. >> > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > -- > Regards, > > Sonny > http://sonc.com/look/ > Natchitoches, Louisiana > 1714 > Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase > > USA > -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com/look/ Natchitoches, Louisiana 1714 Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase USA