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Kilimanjaro and Tarangire photos
Hi All
Just back from Kilimanjaro (Rongai Route) and Tarangire Conservation Area. Had a brilliant time, and can recommend the Treetops lodge in Tarangire for those who like a bit of peace and quiet! If anyone's interested, I've put up a load of photos at www.tomalin.org/charles/tanzania Enjoy Charles -- www.wildviews.com Natural History Photography |
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writes Hi All Just back from Kilimanjaro (Rongai Route) and Tarangire Conservation Area. Had a brilliant time, and can recommend the Treetops lodge in Tarangire for those who like a bit of peace and quiet! If anyone's interested, I've put up a load of photos at www.tomalin.org/charles/tanzania Enjoy Charles Charles, What wonderful photos! You`ve done it again! I`m not going up Kili but seeing it is certainly an experience not to be forgotten. I like the look of the Treetops Lodge. I always loved baobabs. I shall put your photos in my favourites again. Well done and thanks for sharing them with us. Pat -- Pat Anderson |
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"Rydale" wrote:
If anyone's interested, I've put up a load of photos at www.tomalin.org/charles/tanzania Charles, thanks, very good photographs! Hans-Georg -- No mail, please. |
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Thanks for your comments Pat and Hans-Georg.
I try! As I've just 'gone digital' this year (these are my first serious efforts) I confess to taking an awful lot of shots on the basis that it costs nothing extra. The ones on the tomalin.org pages have been filtered down from around 600 pictures... If anyone wants info on my experience with digital, drop me a line. I don't want to take up space here as its a bit off-topic. Rgds Charles www.wildviews.com Natural History Photography -- "Hans-Georg Michna" wrote in message ... "Rydale" wrote: If anyone's interested, I've put up a load of photos at www.tomalin.org/charles/tanzania Charles, thanks, very good photographs! Hans-Georg -- No mail, please. |
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"Rydale" wrote: If anyone wants info on my experience with digital, drop me a line. I don't want to take up space here as its a bit off-topic. According to the charter: "Rec.travel.africa shall be open for discussion about all facets of travel on the continent. Primarily topics like how-to-get there, how-to-get-around, accomodation, wildlife, and other travel related issues are the aim of this group. Even though the main topic and dominant subject feature is travel, discussion may also include topics such as culture, archaeology, architecture, ethnology, photography, history, geology, politics, diving, mountain climbing, arts, music, cuisine, ecology, ornithology, etc." So, since I also loved your pix, post away... :-) Liz -- Virtual Liz at http://www.v-liz.co.uk Kenya; Tanzania; India; Seychelles New Aug '03: Namibia "I speak of Africa and golden joys" |
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"Rydale" wrote:
Thanks for your comments Pat and Hans-Georg. I try! As I've just 'gone digital' this year (these are my first serious efforts) Charles, me too. I confess to taking an awful lot of shots on the basis that it costs nothing extra. The ones on the tomalin.org pages have been filtered down from around 600 pictures... It does cost something extra. It costs you your audience. Got to be selective, otherwise nobody will want to keep looking at your many photos. I think you did that very well. Exactly because photography is now so cheap and easy, we get a flood of poor photos. If you want yours to be seen, you have to make photos that stick out. Which isn't actually that difficult, because most people are not ambitious and merely take photos because it's fun to take them and because they want to catch and remember the moment. Once you decide to take photos for a general audience, there's your ambition. Hans-Georg (http://www.michna.com/kenya2003/) -- No mail, please. |
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Nice pictures :-) I also came back recently from my trip but it seems like you had a bit better weather than me. On your page you say "An amazing experience (and a bit of hard work)". Just "a bit of hard work"? I found it to be harder than expected but I did reach the top. Well, I have posted my pictures on www.gardkarlsen.com Regards Gard "Rydale" wrote in message ... Hi All Just back from Kilimanjaro (Rongai Route) and Tarangire Conservation Area. Had a brilliant time, and can recommend the Treetops lodge in Tarangire for those who like a bit of peace and quiet! If anyone's interested, I've put up a load of photos at www.tomalin.org/charles/tanzania Enjoy Charles -- www.wildviews.com Natural History Photography |
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Ah well I confess I was in training for 6 months before going!
(At my age I wasn't leaving anything to chance). Yes the weather was very good. On the morning after we got back to Marangu, it rained for the first time. I suspect this would have made our route somewhat harder as it was *very* dusty, and so would have been turned to mud. I was very impressed with the detail and layout of your report. I don't have the time unfortunately (or sufficient access to the PC -wife and 2 children to support ) to do that amount of work. I would recommend your site to anyone else headnig for 'the big hill' as a very useful source of info. Also, I had to laugh at your wife's comment "just do it.just leave me out of it" - almost exactly what my wife said.... Rgds Charles -- www.wildviews.com Natural History Photography -- "Gard" wrote in message ... Hi Nice pictures :-) I also came back recently from my trip but it seems like you had a bit better weather than me. On your page you say "An amazing experience (and a bit of hard work)". Just "a bit of hard work"? I found it to be harder than expected but I did reach the top. Well, I have posted my pictures on www.gardkarlsen.com Regards Gard "Rydale" wrote in message ... Hi All Just back from Kilimanjaro (Rongai Route) and Tarangire Conservation Area. Had a brilliant time, and can recommend the Treetops lodge in Tarangire for those who like a bit of peace and quiet! If anyone's interested, I've put up a load of photos at www.tomalin.org/charles/tanzania Enjoy Charles -- www.wildviews.com Natural History Photography |
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Ah my point was that I don't have to worry about the film costs.
The problem with the audience has always been there, and I've always taken a lot more shots than I would use - it just used to cost more. I used to reckon on around 6 good shots per roll. Easy rule, if you take two shots each time (different composition, focus etc), half of the time the second shot will be better, so you immediately improve half your images - think about it... Take three shots, and two thirds of your images will be better.. My last trip out there was for a week on safari and a week in Zanzibar. I took 40 rolls (1400 shots), which cost me UKP150 to process (special deal) plus the film cost, and I had to keep rewinding films and reloading while shooting. What I love with digital is not only the cost reduction bit, but also I can dump them onto the PC and filter down to the useful 15% within a day or so. I've also found I can get prints done (and only of the ones I want...) for 20p for 7x5s, online; so I don't even have to go down to the processing lab any more!! Fantastic. The prints I get are as good as my old negative based ones, and of course I can crop, recolour etc before submitting if I want to. No contest - digital it is for me. Incidentally I used two cameras - a Nikon D100 SLR, mostly for Safari; and a Canon Sureshot S50 (compact) mainly for Kili. I was amazed that the quality of the compact shots was as good as the SLR (5Mps versus 6Mps). The SLR now sits on a shelf, unless I need the big lens, or the macro. (oh yes, and my 300mm is now effectively a 420mm on the digital as well). Ah - happy man. Charles -- www.wildviews.com Natural History Photography "Hans-Georg Michna" wrote in message ... "Rydale" wrote: Thanks for your comments Pat and Hans-Georg. I try! As I've just 'gone digital' this year (these are my first serious efforts) Charles, me too. I confess to taking an awful lot of shots on the basis that it costs nothing extra. The ones on the tomalin.org pages have been filtered down from around 600 pictures... It does cost something extra. It costs you your audience. Got to be selective, otherwise nobody will want to keep looking at your many photos. I think you did that very well. Exactly because photography is now so cheap and easy, we get a flood of poor photos. If you want yours to be seen, you have to make photos that stick out. Which isn't actually that difficult, because most people are not ambitious and merely take photos because it's fun to take them and because they want to catch and remember the moment. Once you decide to take photos for a general audience, there's your ambition. Hans-Georg (http://www.michna.com/kenya2003/) -- No mail, please. |
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"Rydale" wrote:
Ah my point was that I don't have to worry about the film costs. The problem with the audience has always been there, and I've always taken a lot more shots than I would use - it just used to cost more. I used to reckon on around 6 good shots per roll. Easy rule, if you take two shots each time (different composition, focus etc), half of the time the second shot will be better, so you immediately improve half your images - think about it... Take three shots, and two thirds of your images will be better.. Charles, that's certainly true for the blind photographer. But it isn't so for me. I can see the photo already in the viewfinder, so I usually take a first shot quickly, then wait for a better one. Surprisingly often, in the vast majority of all photos, the first remains the best, and quite often the second photo doesn't get taken at all, because the situation deteriorates. There are exceptions, of course. When there is a lot of movement, I sometimes shoot away to later find the exceptional one, but such cases aren't all that frequent. Very occasionally I activate the rapid-fire function on my camera. Then there's the movie shot that's never been there with film. I agree though that it is now cheaper to take some extra photos. But I still don't find that I take more than I took with film. In fact I didn't take all that many. I have become selective before I went digital. Hans-Georg http://www.michna.com/kenya2003/ -- No mail, please. |
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