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Originally Posted by Octane
Mark,
Landscape photography is one of my passions. I'm not sure if you've seen my posts in the terrestrial photography forum.
I've always wanted to image the castles at sunrise/sunset.
The things you're describing sound surreal.
Regards,
Humayun
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Nope, haven't seen them as yet. Will look now tho.
If that's your poison, that's your place. Surreal is the word.
In that Cairngorm Mountains they have these automated weather huts which open up every now and then. One of them had fence posts and wire around it. The ice forms sheets from the wind turbulence. The wires looked like helicopter blades...so weird!
I was climbing Ben Nevis with a group German climbers looking for other climbers caught out over night. The surface of the snow was about chest height. It couldn't support my weight so you have to chop your ice axe like a machete in the jungle, and push your way through (exhausting work). A Jaguar and Tornado fighter jet rolled over the top of me inverted at about 200ft...scared the %#$*& out of me! I could see inside the cockpit (a flash).
The cornices (ice overhang) over the top of the cliffs were about 10-20m. Climbers were digging up, to reach the surface...insane!
You just can't experience things like that in too many places...photography in that environment would be difficult.
You wanna take shots like this, right???
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2476/...5f697318c9.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3506/...cb3c650870.jpg