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Photography

Crewleader

(17,005 posts) Mon Sep 29, 2014, 06:58 AM Sep 2014

Photo of the Day

September 29, 2014

Svan Rider

Photograph by Aaron Huey, National Geographic

Centuries-old defensive towers loom over remote villages in the Svaneti region of Georgia’s Caucasus Mountains. Svans in the collection of villages that make up Ushguli—a World Heritage site—hold on to deep traditions. Horses still provide reliable transport throughout the largely roadless region.

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Photo of the Day (Original Post) Crewleader Sep 2014 OP

Beautiful and intriguing. n/t cntrygrl Sep 2014 #1

Love the shot. Would love to know where he is going. Solly Mack Sep 2014 #2

This might be my favorite pic-o-the-day yet Tom Kitten Sep 2014 #3

cntrygrl

(356 posts)

1. Beautiful and intriguing. n/t

Reply to Crewleader (Original post)

Mon Sep 29, 2014, 08:31 AM

Sep 2014

Solly Mack

(90,773 posts)

2. Love the shot. Would love to know where he is going.

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Mon Sep 29, 2014, 08:55 AM

Sep 2014

Tom Kitten

(7,347 posts)

3. This might be my favorite pic-o-the-day yet

Reply to Crewleader (Original post)

Tue Sep 30, 2014, 01:25 AM

Sep 2014

I like it because great composition, atmospheric perspective, focal point, plus subject matter (ruins! I love taking pictures of ruins!).

It's another place I never heard of...must put it on my itinerary.

A technical question...I've taken pictures with the sun on the horizon like that but I usually get a big blue field around it. How's it done? Filters, superior camera, obviously something I don't know but would like to prevent.

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