Time for a rest (720nm infrared)

Ok, part 2 of the "lost gorge series", in no particular order by the way.

As nice as the small and medium size waterfalls are, one is mostly tucked away under the forest canopy, but before the last one-way section begins, where it gets really steep and narrow (I would not want to descent this part without a rope), it opens up.

The sunlight floods in midday, and the stream divides sometimes creating small islands and there are huge bolders, fallen trunks dam up all sorts of stuff a couple of meters high. Weird artefacts (trash?) can be found that's literally 4-5 decades old, just laying there, half buried.

What I like most is perhaps the sense of isolation, there is no way of entering this place from the top or the sides (well, a dead body could fall / roll down potentially), really peaceful and I spent a good 15-20min just sitting on the rock in front with the warm sun on my back until the shadows moved in, then I did the panorama and moved on.

 

That's one of those panoramas that seem to contain "a lot", even though a given angle of view is just what it is, so most things look small, at least in this format. A mega-large print would perhaps be nice with this, to "walk around in"?

 

 

Source for this is a 360° 42-piece ~290,5MP mercator projection, cropped to 8:5 with 20568 x 12855px, 264,4MP.

 

Nikon D90 (APS-C, fullspectrum mod)

Tamron 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5 Di ll VC HLD

Hoya R72 (720nm infrared pass-filter)

ISO250, 24mm, f/6.3, 0,4sec

(therefore 36mm full frame equivalent)

tripod, panorama head, remote (ML-L3)

Done