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The last climb of this section is now behind me and I can look back along the stretch of coast billed by many as the hardest of the whole of the SWCP.
Cortina, Italy
August 2009
Inspired by Russian Red - Conquer the world
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This is a resubmission which hopefully is an improvement on the previous scan having removed the grain and sharpened a little.
50009 Conqueror passing Tiverton Junction in July 1984
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Cortina, Italy
August 2008
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Inspired by Russian Red - Conquer the world
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At least I think it's the South face. Correct me if I'm wrong.
While I'd love to judge myself against this beautiful piece of granite, I know it to be my superior. And until the day it has a Starbucks on the South peak this mountain will never be "conquered." Something about that makes it even more awe inspiring.
Candidate for photography assignment.
After the first couple of setup shots, I thought for sure this was a photo that wasn't going to happen... but things started to fall in place gradually.
This might be one of the most confined shots I've done yet, at least regarding a human in the shot. From the camera lens to the television set it's only about 5 feet. It was cramped and very, very warm in this room.
I probably shouldn't have left the bottom corners so dark. But to be honest... I just want to go to bed, so I don't really care all that much.
Lighting Info
- SB600 at 24mm zoom and 1/32 power level. Gelled with 1/2 CTB and positioned between the TV and me, pointed at my face.
- SB600 at 85mm zoom and 1/16 power level. Gelled with full CTO and lying on the top of the television set, pointed at the back corner.
- TV... just happened to have a commercial come on which had a flash of light on it. So, I paused it and used at as the "video game", which prevented me from having to actually hook my XBox up.
This is an Edinburgh Fringe photo from 2006. It features two of the incredibly talented performers from an Italian group called Kataklo (composed of former Olympic gymnasts).
I was fortunate enough to be invited along to photograph the show by Angella Kwon, the show's producer. I have a number of shots of this sequence already posted. It was a pleasant surprise that any of them worked out, since they were taken at 3200 ISO and at a shutter speed of 1/20 second (hand held...but with image stabilisation). The Canon EOS-5D is a very impressive camera.
If you like this, you may be interested in the rest of my Kataklo set.
The citadel viewed from the city.
The Citadel of Alanya, the walls of which are nearly 6.5 kilometres long, is on a peninsula whose height is up to 250 metres from the sea level. Although the settlement on Alanya peninsula, also known as Kandeleri, dates back to the Hellenistic Era, its cultural characteristics that can be seen today are thanks to Selcuks of the 13th century.
The citadel was constructed on the demand of the Sultan of Selcuks, Alaaddin Keykubat, who conquered and had the city rebuilt in 1221. The citadel has 83 towers and 140 bastions. Nearly 400 cisterns were built to supply the city surrounded by walks in the medieval times with water. Some of the cisterns are still used today.
The Seljuk Empire used Alanya as a second capital city in addition to Konya and used the city as a winter residence and made improvements there. Mongol attacks in 1243 and the Invasion of Anatolia by Egyptian Memluks weakened the Seljuk Empire which was divided in 1300, and the region came under the reign of the Karamanoğulları dynasty. In 1427 Alanya was sold to the Memluk Sultan for five thousand gold pieces, and then in 1471 the city was included within the borders of the Ottoman Empire by Mehmet II The Conqueror.
30/365
Probably one of the hardest hikes I have ever or will ever do.
Next time I will not take the off beaten path.
Actually later that day, a Dutch woman died when she fell off the same path we took.
Sad.
But I AM glad that I did it.
The powerade I had after was the most amazing thing I had ever drank.
50009 'Conqueror' at the head of a Paddington-Wolverhampton train, photographed at Birmingham New Street back in 1986.
"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves."
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