Would like to share some of the pictures I took during my recent holidays.

Comments are welcomed.

Four Sisters
Distant view of Mount Siguniang. Do you see the four peaks?
The highest peak in this area is Mount Fourth Girl. It encompassed 4 peaks perennially covered with snow soars high with maximum 6,250 m above sea level in the northwest of Western Sichuan Plain.



Abode of the God.
Close-up of the snow-covered peaks.The original Tibetan name of the peaks was Kula Shidak, meaning abode of the mountain god.

*Damn! I see a dust spot on the sensor



Autumn foliage against snow-capped mountains.


This post has been edited by ??!!: Feb 28 2007, 11:09 AM

Siguniang Mountain Scenic Area is situated in Xiaojin County of Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, northwest Sichuan




Changping Gully
Vast valley within Mount Siguniang Park,
29 km long with an area of 100 sq. km. In the gully, there are ancient cypress ,and gushing waterfalls




Dead trees and their reflections in a lake.


This post has been edited by ??!!: Nov 3 2006, 06:32 PM

nice pics of moutains... prefer pic #5

edited

This post has been edited by benzene88: Nov 3 2006, 05:46 PM

wow...nice pic....and what a nice sences....

walao.. nice pic...
do know util when i can go there..
better go shoot hulu langat moutain

nice dust there

try this

my wife said you took very beautiful photos, especially of the cobble road.

This post has been edited by gold3knight: Nov 3 2006, 09:27 PM

my gosh....the scenery.......make me wish that i was rich to be able to travel around

then work for it
buy a D80, then start shooting

Thxs Ppl!...for dropping by and for your comments.

Knight,

Thanks for the link for the clean-up. I've used the blower when I locked up the mirror; but it's still there. Maybe ah mah mata rabun...don't see any dust/dirt, but the spot is showing up. Maybe kena masuk hospital liao.



tell your wifey I appreciate her appreciation of my pix. The walkway in Changping Gully is actually made out of planks. It was covered with algae and frost..and we kept slipping!

the dust on the cmos is invisible to our eyes. when I clean my camera, i don't see anything also, but it's there.

wow....cold place, nice picture

say that again , friend!...yeah, invisible, but it's such a big blob of a grey on the pix.

Thx!..you're right.It WAS cold...Luckily camera didn't die on me, like it did in Huanglong

More pix coming up:
Broad Plain Valley-Another site at Siguniang.

Tibetian villagers jostling for business, offering to take us up the mountain on their horses.




Local woman with colourful headgear



On horse-back to our destination on the right.
The wide expanse of sky and mountain gives one a sense of unsurpassed peace and tranquility.

Old Cypress
One of the many that makes up the ancient cypress forest in Siguniang


Easy way up to the mountain....along the river bed


Gutsy toddler
Alone on horse back, which is the only way up to the mountain.
Unless one wants to take the long trek up on foot ....
*why am I thinking of Knight's daughter?*



Taking a break at a clearing.
Looks like some scene of a Malboro Wild Country advertisement?


Baby Yaks


Finally....our destination!

maybe because I am the only one posting photos of my own daughter while the others are posting photos of other people's daughters

The Destination photo is beautiful.

nice pic you got there

True statement. You're about the only one always showing pix of your daughters. And your daughters so pretty one...sure always reminded of her, hor?

Thx!

The Mugecuo Scenic Area is 30 kilometres north of Kangding with lakes and hot springs scattered throughout.

Mugecuo Lake
The 350 square kilometre lake sits at a height of 3780 metres on the mountain. The azalea bushes on the banks are said to blossom only every two years. The Tibetan meaning for Mugecuo is "Wildmen's Lake".



I have taken different composition of the lake ( to make up for the ones I didn't get at Lake Matheson,NZ due to windy conditions )



Which one looks better? Help me decide...





* Haiya...vignetting at the edges..due to stacking of the Polarizer on top of the UV filter? Is it have to remove UV filter when using Polarizer? *

This post has been edited by ??!!: Nov 7 2006, 05:27 PM

I like the shot with people in it. Shows the scale of the lake. The one with the branches coming down from the top, have to rotate the image a bit. The horizon is tipping to the right.

I stack my PL ontop of the UV filter also, never remove the uv filter

Could it be the stacking of the filters on the wide angle lens?



I thought this one draws the viewer into the picture. But somehow the boat seems to spoil the sense of remote-ness that I like about the place. Ok...I am a anti anything man-made kind of person.

Would have loved to trim the hanging branches for the pix; but does not cherish the thought of having to have a taste of China's prison for spoiling their national treasure! The long branches on the left just seem to throw the whole pix out of balance...

The one without any framing just seem ....eer...too 'clean'; to the point of being uninteresting.

This one really killed my mood:

Man's Destructive Ways
Frost on an empty cigarette pack strewn on the otherwise pristine grounds of the Kham Highlands.