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top: Grand Turk Mountain (12,734') from Molas Pass, CO,
mid: mine tailings, Silverton CO,
bottom: Colorado Plateau near Abiqui NM.
Canon 5D IV (30 MP, full-frame), 70-200 f4 L lens. Heavy gear, but I like the results.
Capture One raw processor, minimal persuasion.
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Makes me wish for a week or ten days car camping, sightseeing and taking some photos.
Maybe Bryce or Zion would be nice.
Anybody ever been there?
Too much is never enough
The f4 version of the 70-200 lenses (note: Canon? Nikon? Sony?) are light compared to the f2.8 of same. The Canon used by free? A 'mere' 700 grams.
The new Nikkor, for example, goes over 3lb or nearly 1400 grams.
I'm certain that others follow this pattern.
The f4 glass gives away little to nothing to the heavyweights.
Too much is never enough
Very nice.
Very nice pics! You and stan2 are making me jealous to "get out of Dodge" for a couple days. But alas I"m still a working stiff, and thankful for that!
Off topic but:
If anyone knows about Nikon (Nikkor?) lenses from a couple decades ago (maybe older), I might be posting a question about them sometime this week. I have an old but nearly mint condition Nikon F100 35mm body with a constant aperture 35-70mm f/2.8 and 70-200mm f/2.8. These are auto focus Nikon lenses from the same era as the 35mm Nikon F100. I have no clue what they might be worth or where to sell them.
We camped at Moras Pass at a camp ground. We made a trip to Silverton and hiked down the narrow gauge tracks along the Animas River. We then backpacked up to a place called Highland Mary Lakes which was stupid high. We both woke up with headaches in the morning and had to pack out and get to lower altitudes. I think our camp was around 12,000'. That whole area is lifted. I prefer 5,000-10,000'. After that my head hurts. Of course it doesn't help that we live at sea level.
Nice shots. I have photos of that area. I would take days to find them.
How old were you when you got a headache? I was backpacking with a buddy and we campe around 10000 feet after crossing Mt. San Gorgonio (all our stuff was back at camp) which is 11,500.
Norm woke up, like you, with a real splitter and we got down to 7000 to 8000 feet by just after lunch.
I never DID see the Nelson Bighorn Sheep.....
I'm TOLD that altitude problems occur more with younger people.
Too much is never enough
I hope you didn't get chronic mountain sickness. CMS is a lifetime sickness that will act up whenever a victim gets to a certain altitude.
Sir Ed Hillary had it. Sometime after his famous Everest ascent, he could never again climb past 8,000 ft (2,440 m).
I have been above 10,000' many times since. It just takes some acclimation for us flat lander folks. A two week vacation isn't enough time to acclimate.
very nice. I have a 70-200/f4 IS Canon lens too. That's a great one.
Re: the mine tailings. Might be part of the Superfund site there, or maybe there are more than one. I used to work on abandon mines and other Superfund messes. Very colorful, even the water in the downstream creeks!
A fine art photographer, Richard Misrach, made many photos framing environmental disasters and abominations to sell in expensive galleries. They are beautiful works of terrible things, selling for mega thousands. Pieces are also in many heavyweight collections. Several books of his works are published. An early one is "Bravo 20", pictures of an early nuclear testing site in NV.
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