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Resting on the dune, under the full moon.
Four horizontal shots, with control points placed on the animals (!!). Zoom 70-300, 220(x1.5) mm, 1/320 sec, F/8, ISO 100. Location: 31.189097 -4.006112 |
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Cari saluti Patrick
Actually, it was the circumstance of having the 70-300 mounted that led me to the foolish idea of a panorama which relied heavily on the immobility of the animals. Namely, the sand-blowing wind suggested not to attempt any lens change on my D7000.
So, instead of relying on the spare Powershot G9, I moved several steps further, in order to use a rather big focal length, enhancing the presence of the moon - at the expense of DOF, as you correctly point out.
The sand of the Sahara is rather fatal for cameras, even for compact ones. In 2007, when I cycled the 160 km piste from Mhamid to Foum Zguid, after few weeks I had to throw away my Powershot G7.
To be honest, there may be also other problems on its pistes. That 25-12-2007, after some 40 km I realized that in the pannier a sharp sardine can had perched the big plastic bottle near to it. So, I found myself with very few water for the next 120 kms... At a certain point, I located an oasis which seemed to host some touristic structures. When I attempted to enter its walls, I realized how at that late hour they had freed the dogs, which I had to escape pedalling desperately along half of the wall circle. When the dogs finally stopped chasing me, I found myself on the border of the desert, in the darkness. I took out from the pannier my headlamp, and turned it around, in search for anything that could help my confused ideas. After few minutes, I realized that few metres before me was burning an extremely dim light, presumably relying on batteries very close to death. Behind that light there was a man who, however in civilian dresses, turned out to be a soldier coming from a nearby post for observation of the Algerian border, which lies only 12 km from the piste. He spoke only Arabic, but waving his hands he invited me to follow him on the hill. He had another companion there, and they shared their dinner with me. At a certain point, the nearly full moon rose from the desert: they rolled out a carpet on the stony hammada and began their prayer to Allah, while I was still working at noodles and vegetables - which, by the way, turned out to be fatal for my bowel in the subsequent hours.
Martin: few days later I was on the snow as well, since on Easter Sunday I fulfilled my old desire of climbing the highest mountain of the northern High Atlas, namely, Jebel Ayachi. The photos are not interesting enough to be published here: I would be ejected from the community if I did!
However, I have prepared something for Panoramio (the summit view is www.panoramio.com/photo/88438747) since I realized that on Google Earth the mountain is photographically "blank on the map", with the exception of some misplaced or irrelevant works.
Thanks to everybody for viewing and commenting.
Herzlichst Christoph
I need only to choose among the "neutral" summit material and some beautiful panorama from down.
A little curiosity about "beautiful vs. interesting", and also about the craziness of the net. On the Google servers, my most linked image from Morocco is a totally "neutral" one, having nothing but the feature to be placed on a mountain which is the "poor brother" of the Toubkal. Here is the list of links: www.panoramio.com/photo/70747797/stats most of which seem to have nothing to do with the place!!
Actually an especially interesting picture for me, as it gives the opposite angle on Ras Ouanoukrim than my very first pano on this site (#1648). Do you have more material to the right and left to make this yet another candidate for p-p.?
Cheers, Martin
Kind regards Christoph
No, unfortunately these were prehistoric times for me in terms of panorama photography. I do not own more pixels, which is a shame especially on the right side, where the Dome d'Ifni ridge stands out so beautifully in its bright orange colour.
Martin, if you like to see also Jebel Toubkal "from the other side", I recommend you to have a look at www.panoramio.com/photo/70670975
In your "first" one can clearly see the couloir descending from the Ouanoukrim double summit, couloir that I was to discover and to follow with great amusement half an hour after having shot the Timesguida "half-pano"... It is a must also for the people (always more numerous) going to the region in search for a ski-touring adventure.
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