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Fabulous picture, that looks like a tough yomp!Circumnavigating the Isle of Rum - looking NW over Canna to the Outer Hebrides. IView attachment 24832
@Blademonkey - You're right. It was brutal but rewarding. It looks fluffy and lovely on a nice sunny day - the scenery is undoubtedly world class but because there is - basically - bugger all on the island - other than deer and views - you end up carrying a huge pack. You have to be totally self-sufficient. We carried rods and eat fresh fish most days - both saltwater and loch caught trout. Every day was an invitation to snap an ankle or worse - and a long way from help. I've had the privilege to have been trekking in the Indian Himalaya, Ladakh, Kashmir and the North West Frontier of Pakistan but the terrain is as brutal on Rum - in terms of what it takes out of your body. No altitude problems I guess. You don't get avalanches. Or indeed snow leopards. On the other hand you do see sea eagles - they are magnificent creatures. Like a wardrobe with wings - massive. Hard work none the less. IFabulous picture, that looks like a tough yomp!
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@Blademonkey - You're right. It was brutal but rewarding. It looks fluffy and lovely on a nice sunny day - the scenery is undoubtedly world class but because there is - basically - bugger all on the island - other than deer and views - you end up carrying a huge pack. You have to be totally self-sufficient. We carried rods and eat fresh fish most days - both saltwater and loch caught trout. Every day was an invitation to snap an ankle or worse - and a long way from help. I've had the privilege to have been trekking in the Indian Himalaya, Ladakh, Kashmir and the North West Frontier of Pakistan but the terrain is as brutal on Rum - in terms of what it takes out of your body. No altitude problems I guess. You don't get avalanches. Or indeed snow leopards. On the other hand you do see sea eagles - they are magnificent creatures. Like a wardrobe with wings - massive. Hard work none the less. IView attachment 24833 View attachment 24834
@thegallus1 - That's a bummer. It's an amazing place - if the weather is good. Otherwise it can be grim. Bad weather can lock in for days - weeks. Also don't go in midgie season - the worst I have ever experienced. ILove the pictures from Rum. I had hired a camping pod over on Rum for a few nights planning to do a few walks on the island. Came down with flu so didn't go over.
Heh, can't compete with that! Really nice, and very Noir.@Helveticum - that's a great pic - who can resist back-lit water droplets? I'm inspired to post this image after seeing yours - same idea but just done differently. Oh - it's not a double exposure. Palma Majorca - IView attachment 24849
Stunning.......I can see a face top left!@Helveticum - thanks for the compliment. It seems it's just you and I posting here - how could we broaden it out and get others involved and contributing? Any ideas? I like posting on this thread for several reasons. One being, it has encouraged me to re-visit my archive hard-drives - I've enjoyed remembering places I've been to, the people I met. So today's submission - landscape photography appears to be popular - a view across the upper Indus river valley in Ladakh, Indian Himalaya. If you are wondering - where is the mighty Indus? One of the world's great rivers, it is barely discernible at the bottom of the pic. It was taken in the dry season - the snow that feeds the river hadn't yet melted at this point. It was barely a foot deep. Relatively speaking - we are not that far from its source in Tibet, so even in flood it isn't that big hereabouts. View attachment 24877 Cheers - I
@Helveticum - thanks for the compliment. It seems it's just you and I posting here - how could we broaden it out and get others involved and contributing? Any ideas? I like posting on this thread for several reasons. One being, it has encouraged me to re-visit my archive hard-drives - I've enjoyed remembering places I've been to, the people I met. So today's submission - landscape photography appears to be popular - a view across the upper Indus river valley in Ladakh, Indian Himalaya. If you are wondering - where is the mighty Indus? One of the world's great rivers, it is barely discernible at the bottom of the pic. It was taken in the dry season - the snow that feeds the river hadn't yet melted at this point. It was barely a foot deep. Relatively speaking - we are not that far from its source in Tibet, so even in flood it isn't that big hereabouts. View attachment 24877 Cheers - I
Stunning, mate! Going on a trip to Himalayas is one of my dreams.
In the meantime, I will have to counter with a landscape I took not too far from Reykjavik a few years back.
As for getting others to participate.. I suppose some will, if the new pictures keep coming up more often. So let's just stick to updates for now
I suppose we could arrange a little photo contest with a symbolic prize at some point later as well.
@Helveticum - I'll get my pic of the day in early. Changing tack - from fluffy landscapes - I post the memorial in Atocha station - Madrid - for the victims of the 2004 bombing. I know this station well - I have passed through it many times - thankfully the attackers didn't get the timing right. The bombs blew up just outside the station. If the Cerciana - local train - had been in the terminus - there would been an even greater carnage. This is a picture of the extremely eloquent memorial to them. I have photographed this place many times - it never fails to move me. @Whitefiver - you've posted before - why don't you join in? All photographers welcome. I.View attachment 24880