Today hasn't been good for me, nothing really I can complain about, just things not going smoothly. So sharing something that I am passionate about will perhaps make myself happy. I haven't posted on the forum for a long long time because I've not really been taking photos the way I used to. I got back to mountain biking and spend many weekends with friends in the mountain trails. Typically when people talk about MTB, it's always about the technical and challenging stuffs that get mentioned. I suck in technical skills, don't have the balls to do jumps and drop offs, but I love being outdoors. So this is what we do, we ride on trails that regular riders don't ride on. Mountain bikes can get us to places that will take too long on foot, and bikes make great composition subjects! We bring food and water that will last us the whole day. We hike-a-bike when necessary. Most importantly, we ride so we can take photos of our experiences in the wild. Many of us carry DSLR on top of the food and supply. I carry a D750 with a 24-120vr. It gives me most of what I need with decent image quality. I used to carry primes but gave up on multiple lens set up after a while because the risk of dirt getting into the lens and camera is too high. So here are some that I've picked from the past 3 years of riding. Hope ya'll like them, and please feel free to share yours too! I'd love to meet anyone who does what we do too.
We rode to this look out place to catch the sunset. That's not clouds btw. It's actually air pollution called haze that remained the entire day. Quite sad, but makes great photos.
Many mountains we visited have tea plantations, which to me isn't a good thing because of its impact on the local ecosystem.
If there are fire-flies in the area, we try to camp overnight for such shots.
It's rare that we get this deep, but oh well...
Sometimes, just being away from the city is good enough.
And this pretty much sums it up!
We rode to this look out place to catch the sunset. That's not clouds btw. It's actually air pollution called haze that remained the entire day. Quite sad, but makes great photos.
Many mountains we visited have tea plantations, which to me isn't a good thing because of its impact on the local ecosystem.
If there are fire-flies in the area, we try to camp overnight for such shots.
It's rare that we get this deep, but oh well...
Sometimes, just being away from the city is good enough.
And this pretty much sums it up!
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