Click said:
Sporgon said:
A rather nice path that leads up to the base of Tryfan, one of the well known mountains of North Wales. On top, on the very edge, there are two monoliths, each standing about seven foot high with a four foot gap between. If you are feeling brave you can jump across them, and there's a 1000 foot drop waiting at the side. Yours truly has done it - in my younger days.
Taken straight into the sun, equivalent to a 14mm shot.
I really like this shot. Well done Sporgon.
You're braver than I
GammyKnee said:
Sporgon said:
A rather nice path that leads up to the base of Tryfan, one of the well known mountains of North Wales. On top, on the very edge, there are two monoliths, each standing about seven foot high with a four foot gap between. If you are feeling brave you can jump across them, and there's a 1000 foot drop waiting at the side. Yours truly has done it - in my younger days.
Taken straight into the sun, equivalent to a 14mm shot.
Lovely shot. Been wanting to have a holiday in Wales for a while now, and when I do I suspect Tryfan will be on the todo list. But I won't jumping across any monoliths
Thanks for that guys ! I'm pleased you like this because relatively unusual for me in that its a three frame pano, shot in portrait as usual, but at 28mm, so in fact to get this on a single frame FF I would have had to use a 14mm lens, and I very rarely go this wide, but I think this has worked and I'm really pleased with it.
Just for proof ! I've been cleaning some old archived slides that have been stored in less than ideal conditions, and as they are mostly kodachrome they have some pretty major fungal issues. Kodachrome seems so susceptible to this.
Anyway here is the actual shot of me jumping between Adam and Eve as they are known. The story behind this was that I had gone along as the photographer for a mountaineering club. When we got to the top of Tryfan there was a guy and his girlfriend sunbathing ! The mountaineering guys wanted pictures of them jumping across. When we had finished, we were all going, including the other guy with his girl, when she said "wait a minute, I want to see this one jump across too". Now I had actually had no intention of jumping across. However under the gaze of this rather pretty girl I felt I had no choice, so one of the lads took my camera and I tried to step across looking as nonchalant as possible.
The monoliths are literally on the very southern edge of the cliff, and the second picture is showing that southern side, and the third is a 100% crop showing Adam & Eve on top.
By the way, don't listen to people that tell you 35mm film was about 24 mp - nearly all that 24 meg of information is grain.
IMG_4931_DxO by Graham Stretch, on Flickr
