Puddle in the Road

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• snunney (24280)
• [2007-08-18 6:07]

Hello Chris,
A lovely verdant landscape. Great depth and nice reflection in the pool of water.

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• MeAT (1116)
• [2007-08-18 6:28]

Lovely landscape. Must be a really impressive place to visit. Nice composition.

I assume it is a scan because the quality of the grain could be improved a bit.

Thanks for sharing!

MeAT :)

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• feather (43340)
• [2007-08-18 7:20]

Good to see you back Chris. I had to laugh at the "impromptu stop". Here you are stuck in the mud so you take out your camera. It reminds me of the "Hamlet" advert ;D.
You positioned yourself well to take advantage of the cloud reflection. Those hills seem to disappear into infinity.
Kath

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• siolaw (23541)
• [2007-08-18 7:51]

Hi Chris,
Welcome back! Nice one here, a peaceful atmosphere, with nice green hills and smooth landscape.
The reflexion in the pothole look great, and remind us to transform negative(4X4 bogged) into positive (a nice picture).. given the track condition, seems pretty easy to meet some mechanical trouble along the way !
Greetings
Laurent

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• jhm (71163)
• [2007-08-18 8:59]

Hallo Chris,

I'm very glad you see again after a few months.
We see your completely vacation report with pictures.
Lovely landscape and nice reflection in the small lake.

Have a nice weekend,
John.

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• dokadak (11404)
• [2007-08-18 9:25]

Hi Cris,

Its an interesting shot, nice composition... reflection is amazing on pool of water...

regards
hasan

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• carper (57433)
• [2007-08-18 10:22]

it is very beautiful there Chris,
the point of view is good, there is a lot light in the shot, I like the fantastic green tones. very good photojob, have a nice day.
gr. jaap

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• syd1946 (16837)
• [2007-08-18 11:04]

Hello Chris,
Nice to see a new post from you!I like very much the point you choose for the shot,to enjoy the wonderful view and most of all the reflections to the water.Beautiful and rare landscape for my eyes!

Greetings,
Thomas

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• alvaraalto (3363)
• [2007-08-18 12:04]

Hi Chris,
Lovely green landscape this time.
Just an extensive plain I could imaging for the horses of Dzjengis Khan.
Nice mirror in the green.
Groet Rob

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• devimeuxbe (49751)
• [2007-08-18 13:46]

Hi Chris
C'est vraiment un monde sauvage. On se croirait à l'ère de la préhistoire. Tès beau paysage.
Amicalement
Bertrand

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• leonorkuhn (9390)
• [2007-08-18 14:10]

Hi Chris,

Bad conditions to drive... but the panorama is very beautiful. I like the nice hills in this plain. Very good colors, light, perspective and reflections.

Have a nice sunday
Leonor

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• Gerrit (28404)
• [2007-08-18 14:18]

Hi Chris,
excellent POV and compo. Ideal landscape. It's a bit light on the upper side, but a great scenery.
Regards, gerrit

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• gneufeld (11994)
• [2007-08-18 19:25]

Hi Chris,
A very fine shot of this place made beautiful by the puddle that includes reflections of the clouds beyond. Hope you got unstuck and safely on your way again. Thanks for sharing. Gerald

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• MLINES (9529)
• [2007-08-19 17:14]

Hi Chris. This is to be a most interesting journey you are taking us on in the comfort of home. Beautiful light and interesting notes from the back blocks of Mongolia. TFS. Murray.

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• saylan-cb (10766)
• [2007-08-20 4:18]

Hi Chris
İnteresting shot...
Great colours and view...
Nice reflection and POV...
Excellent work...
TFS/Regards

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• isabela_sor (35653)
• [2007-08-20 6:49]

Here you can write again about the land of blue sky :) as you did in that note for "soccer balls",well seen that reflection and I like the depth.Maybe the colors were too much saturated
Hugs
Isabela

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• Emile (17350)
• [2007-08-23 9:10]

Hola Chris.
Great shot with the green valley taking your eyes to the beautiful hills, good depth. Very good reflection and colors. Well done.
Best regards.

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• bakes888 (14250)
• [2007-08-24 23:12]

Hi Chris. Puddle?? Are you sure this is not the Great White Lake ;-). Great photo. You have captured the beautiful conditions well. Well balanced composition with good depth and colour. Thanks for sharing.
Cheers, Paul.

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• banyanman (7490)
• [2007-08-27 0:18]
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Hi Chris,

The composition of this is good taking advantage of the 'puddle' in the road to provide the reflection in the foreground - the shape is like a reverse image of the shape of the hills, so it makes the photograph feel well balanced. Taking photographs on the steppes is hard because so often there is nothing that you can find to add foreground interest so you've done well here. The technical quality of this scan though is not as good as some of your others that you have posted as it lacks sharpness. Do you have a CPL filter for your Pentax lens? I think that would have brought the clouds out better and improved the saturation of the sky as well.

Cheers . . . David

PS: Yes, you are right, North Hangay is an anglicised version of Arkhangai. There are many different ways to translate the name of Mongolian provinces from their modified cyrillic alphabet - that's why you also see this province spelt as Arhangay, Alahangai, and Ara Hangay - confusing huh!