Perhaps the Betrachter interested in Mongolian/Siberian topics has already seen my panoramas «Late Malchin» (N.9888, then reworked as N.16185) and «Shepherdess of the Altai» (N.8227).
The present one, that I stitched now from pictures long abandoned on the disk, combines the daylight of the latter with the standpoint of the former - from which it also inherits the failure to cover the whole 360°. If in «Late Malchin» this was a consequence of the cloud layout, here it comes from the choice to leave the summit khadag in order to gain a balcony maximizing the view on the majestic Potanina glacier.
This work also marks a progress in the task of working out the virtually endless series of my 23-08-2011 panos, although now the priority for me is to provide a proper reworking of the highly instructive N.9762 which completes - together with the two mentioned before - the triptych of my favourites from that unforgettable mountain day. The "state of the art" is available on the Testplatz N.7449, if anybody wants to provide suggestions, complaints a.s.o.
N.B.: maybe some word is due in order to explain why this picture led me back so much to N.9762. The point is that here, at 260°, in the original (static.panoramio.com/photos/original/115218667.jpg) one sees a beautiful rock pyramid peeping from behind. Curiously enough, Udeuschle is of little help for its identification, since in the rendering it is shadowed by the non-existent Udeuschle horn marked at 252.5° in the Nairamdal view.
As a result... I was not able to reliably identify the pyramid yet, but I have no hurry: I like the idea of a world still with some unnamed pyramid and with some non-existent horn!
Arno Bruckardt, Hans-Jörg Bäuerle, Friedemann Dittrich, Jörg Engelhardt, Felix Gadomski, Johannes Ha, Leonhard Huber, Johann Ilmberger, Thomas Janeck, Martin Kraus, Wilfried Malz, Giuseppe Marzulli, Jan Lindgaard Rasmussen, Danko Rihter, Werner Schelberger, Matthias Stoffels, Michael Strasser, Konrad Sus, Jens Vischer, Augustin Werner
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Wilfried: looking at the Potanina glacier, 3500 seems indeed to be a reasonable figure.
Martin: thank you for Testplatz-Betrachting.
Comforted by our interest, I worked hard on the topic and I produced the object that you now find at the competing place (9762).
You were fully right, that Hugin totally burnt the snow dome. However, this led me to a discovery: when in Hugin you reoptimize the exposure after some Lightroom tweak, he does not automatically sync the global exposure to the new exposure of the picture anchored for the sake. You need to do this by hand in the Preview window (!!). The reason for this is mysterious to me - but mystery is more the rule than the exception for me in this field.
For example, another discovery of the day was that Panoramio accepts pictures of more than 30.000 pixel width, but then... it is not able to display them!
So, in static.panoramio.com/photos/original/115215963.jpg I needed to cut the right end - which aesthetically is no loss, however!
Cheers,
Alberto.
Kind regards, Matthias.
Happy new year 2015 - cheers, Hans-Jörg
My interest in these old pictures was arisen again by a slideshow that my sister gave about her recent travel to Buriatia and Lake Bajkal, that is, to the land of Shamanism.
As I wrote in the explanation to N.8227, the Ice Princess of the Altai (whose tomb lies on the Ukok plateau, few kms from here) could also be a shamaness...
Tanti auguri e un felice anno nuovo!
Saluti Werner
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