Nepal trip photos
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 12:57 am
I have created a new Nepal photo gallery on my website so please take a look if you are interested. Note that the photos in this gallery are a bit larger than most of my older galleries. The photos are in chronological order.
http://www.bakubo.com/Galleries%202/index.html
I traveled in Nepal for a month in November/December, but it has taken me a bit of time to get some of my photos ready because I bought a new computer and then there was Christmas and New Years. It was my first time to go to Nepal so it was cool to see many new places, meet some new people, and take photographs in a new place!
In Nepal I traveled around and went to Kathmandu, Patan, Bhaktapur, Nuwakot, Bandipur, Pokhara, Sauraha, and Chitwan National Park. I spent 2 weeks traveling with 5 people from Australia and Scotland and 2.5 weeks on my own. They were a great group of people!
Among other things, we went on a 2-day, 1-night whitewater rafting trip on the Seti River in Nepal and at night we set up tents next to the river and spent the night. In the deep black sky the stars were wondrous! I had planned to go on a trek somewhere for about a week, but then I got quite sick for 10 days, lost lots of weight, and even after I finally started feeling better I was pretty weak so I ended up not doing any trekking. I did go on a couple of 7 hour hikes (one in the hills outside Bandipur to a little village called Ramkot and one at Chitwan National Park through the jungle). Even though I was sick for 10 days (even during the rafting trip) I still did a lot and didn't sit around in a hotel room somewhere. I didn't want to miss anything. I just didn't enjoy it as much as I would have if I had been well. For example, in Pokhara before sunrise we climbed to the top of Sarangkot to watch the sunrise and the first rays hitting the Annapurna range of the Himalayas. Beautiful!
Here is a panorama of the Annapurna Range of the Himalaya Mountains at sunrise in Nepal taken from the top of Sarangkot:
http://www.bakubo.com/panoramas.html
I ended up spending more time in Kathmandu than I had expected because I was recovering from illness. Also, the airline canceled my flight home so I had to stay an additional 3 days until another flight from Kathmandu to Kunming to Shanghai to Honolulu was available. The extra time in Kathmandu gave me the chance to do more street life photography there though!
This was the first trip to use my Olympus E-M5 kit that I bought in May 2012. This is what I took:
Olympus E-M5 + 3 batteries + charger
Panasonic G3 + battery + charger (backup body)
Olympus 14-150mm f4-5.6 + UV filter + polarizer filter + lens hood
Olympus 9-18mm f4-5.6 + UV filter + lens hood
Panasonic 14mm f2.5 + UV filter + lens hood
Panasonic 20mm f1.7 + UV filter
Olympus FL-300R flash + 2 nimh AAA batteries
98gb of SD memory cards
Canon S95 digicam + battery + charger
I would say that it is about 1/3 the size and weight compared to my usual DSLR camera travel kit. You can see a size comparison here:
http://www.photoclubalpha.com/forum/vie ... 46&#p74008
It worked out well. After buying the E-M5 I adjusted the EVF as I describe in the post below and that made the EVF acceptable in contrasty light:
http://www.photoclubalpha.com/forum/vie ... 32&#p71641
In selecting photos for the gallery I had the same dilemma I always have. I put them on my website to serve two purposes that sometimes overlap, but sometimes diverge. I want to put the photos I like the best while at the same time try to put photos that are fairly representative of most of the places I went and saw in the particular country. That is what I did for this Nepal gallery. I tried to explain this here:
http://www.photoclubalpha.com/forum/vie ... 22&#p75322
I hope you enjoy the photos of Nepal!
http://www.bakubo.com/Galleries%202/index.html
I traveled in Nepal for a month in November/December, but it has taken me a bit of time to get some of my photos ready because I bought a new computer and then there was Christmas and New Years. It was my first time to go to Nepal so it was cool to see many new places, meet some new people, and take photographs in a new place!
In Nepal I traveled around and went to Kathmandu, Patan, Bhaktapur, Nuwakot, Bandipur, Pokhara, Sauraha, and Chitwan National Park. I spent 2 weeks traveling with 5 people from Australia and Scotland and 2.5 weeks on my own. They were a great group of people!
Among other things, we went on a 2-day, 1-night whitewater rafting trip on the Seti River in Nepal and at night we set up tents next to the river and spent the night. In the deep black sky the stars were wondrous! I had planned to go on a trek somewhere for about a week, but then I got quite sick for 10 days, lost lots of weight, and even after I finally started feeling better I was pretty weak so I ended up not doing any trekking. I did go on a couple of 7 hour hikes (one in the hills outside Bandipur to a little village called Ramkot and one at Chitwan National Park through the jungle). Even though I was sick for 10 days (even during the rafting trip) I still did a lot and didn't sit around in a hotel room somewhere. I didn't want to miss anything. I just didn't enjoy it as much as I would have if I had been well. For example, in Pokhara before sunrise we climbed to the top of Sarangkot to watch the sunrise and the first rays hitting the Annapurna range of the Himalayas. Beautiful!
Here is a panorama of the Annapurna Range of the Himalaya Mountains at sunrise in Nepal taken from the top of Sarangkot:
http://www.bakubo.com/panoramas.html
I ended up spending more time in Kathmandu than I had expected because I was recovering from illness. Also, the airline canceled my flight home so I had to stay an additional 3 days until another flight from Kathmandu to Kunming to Shanghai to Honolulu was available. The extra time in Kathmandu gave me the chance to do more street life photography there though!
This was the first trip to use my Olympus E-M5 kit that I bought in May 2012. This is what I took:
Olympus E-M5 + 3 batteries + charger
Panasonic G3 + battery + charger (backup body)
Olympus 14-150mm f4-5.6 + UV filter + polarizer filter + lens hood
Olympus 9-18mm f4-5.6 + UV filter + lens hood
Panasonic 14mm f2.5 + UV filter + lens hood
Panasonic 20mm f1.7 + UV filter
Olympus FL-300R flash + 2 nimh AAA batteries
98gb of SD memory cards
Canon S95 digicam + battery + charger
I would say that it is about 1/3 the size and weight compared to my usual DSLR camera travel kit. You can see a size comparison here:
http://www.photoclubalpha.com/forum/vie ... 46&#p74008
It worked out well. After buying the E-M5 I adjusted the EVF as I describe in the post below and that made the EVF acceptable in contrasty light:
http://www.photoclubalpha.com/forum/vie ... 32&#p71641
In selecting photos for the gallery I had the same dilemma I always have. I put them on my website to serve two purposes that sometimes overlap, but sometimes diverge. I want to put the photos I like the best while at the same time try to put photos that are fairly representative of most of the places I went and saw in the particular country. That is what I did for this Nepal gallery. I tried to explain this here:
http://www.photoclubalpha.com/forum/vie ... 22&#p75322
I hope you enjoy the photos of Nepal!