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Post by hwinpp on Sept 29, 2009 8:05:08 GMT
Those houses float They move with the water level. Yes. Have a look at the map. The Tonle Sap River connects the Tonle Sap Lake with the Mekong River. When the Mekong gets swollen towards the end of the rainy season it presses water up the TS River into the TS Lake. It brings new water, silt and fish. You cannot actually see the river suddenly reverse of course... The TS River is the connection between the red star and the lake.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2009 17:43:46 GMT
Sagaponack Sunset,9/1109
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 29, 2009 18:39:23 GMT
That is fascinating, HW. That lake seems to be the heart of Cambodia. Coming as I do from a watery place, I'm always interested in how people work with or against the forces of nature -- annual flooding, etc. And floating houses! That makes perfect sense.
Casimira -- beautiful sunset. I love how the clouds made "rays" like in a child's picture of the setting sun.
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Post by tillystar on Sept 30, 2009 21:56:25 GMT
THere are so many beautiful pictures on this thread! This is the sunset as I arrived at home on Monday evening.
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Post by imec on Sept 30, 2009 23:04:34 GMT
Pretty! I love the pink contrails. (Heathrow traffic I imagine...)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2009 3:13:06 GMT
What a great sight to be riding home to. Tilly riding off into the sunset. Beautiful.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 1, 2009 4:18:42 GMT
Ohhhhh, Tilly! That is like a Maxfield Parrish painting, or one of those turn-of-the-century paintings on glass....... so beautiful and lush!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2009 10:53:37 GMT
Once again, the bay of Halong in northern Vietnam.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2009 13:07:28 GMT
Amazing, all.
And Tilly, wow, is all I can say.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 3, 2009 14:25:11 GMT
That's a beautiful, peaceful photo, Kerouac. The faint wake of the boat heading towards the horizon is so evocative.
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Post by hwinpp on Oct 7, 2009 10:32:56 GMT
Three wonderful shots.
Do you use tripods? How do you hold the cameras so still?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2009 10:38:51 GMT
No tripod here. I have great difficulty with holding the camera still,sometimes I just luck out. Close to half my pictures thus far are blurred as a result.
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Post by hwinpp on Oct 8, 2009 10:59:55 GMT
I dunno. I have big hands but I can't always get those pictures I want...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2009 20:17:43 GMT
Those houses float They move with the water level.
You are kidding, hwinpp? But how?
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Post by hwinpp on Oct 9, 2009 10:04:18 GMT
They're actually anchored, floating platforms
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 24, 2009 1:07:14 GMT
Beautiful evening here. These were taken about an hour ago.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2009 2:18:32 GMT
Exquisite B.,simply exquisite.
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Post by imec on Oct 24, 2009 3:11:53 GMT
Wow! Those are dreamy - fantastic colours!
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 24, 2009 3:31:55 GMT
Thanks, y'all!
Using the zoom sort of exaggerated the blue, but it captured those incredible peachy shades.
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Post by hwinpp on Oct 27, 2009 9:00:27 GMT
Those 'blues' you get when you take photographs in the evening are really something, aren't they? I'm going to buy a little mobile tripod I can put on my car roof to stabilize the camera.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2009 17:06:15 GMT
They're actually anchored, floating platforms Amazing.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2009 17:06:48 GMT
Or you just pulling my leg hw?
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Post by hwinpp on Oct 28, 2009 7:25:18 GMT
I am emphatically not pulling your leg or anything else! I'll be up in Siem Reap in November, I'll be at one of the floating viollages and try to get a shot of when they move their houses. It's just like a caravan, they hitch a house to a motorboat and then they take off to some other spot to moor the house. True! Cross my heart and hope to die! And I'm sure Jack can confirm this too
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2009 13:07:01 GMT
okay I believe you. Man, I'd like to see that for real though. A good way not to get bored of where you one is living. Yes, try and get a photo of it for us, I'd love to see it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2009 20:05:56 GMT
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Post by spindrift on Nov 1, 2009 20:20:01 GMT
That's lovely, Deyana.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2009 22:48:13 GMT
Thanks.
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Post by fumobici on Nov 2, 2009 4:14:50 GMT
It is lovely. Why does it seem even on the stormiest darkest days as the sun sets so often it will have a peek out from under a roof of clouds just before it sets?
Not that I'm complaining!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2009 13:47:08 GMT
Maybe it's a reminder to us, that no matter how dark the day may be, the sun will rise again?
We are lucky here, in that we get more than our share of sunny days, even on the coldest days, the sun shines, so we get sunsets all year around...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2009 17:54:50 GMT
This isn't my photo, but it happens once a year (in August, I think). I keep promising myself that someday I will be there with my camera at the right time.
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