Panorama Photo

The Stimmung depicted here popped out truly unexpected, lasting only one-two minutes. I had just the time to mount on a store along the road and shoot with some passable Einstellung, and surely without bothering about the local who was standing in front of me. He was presumably waiting for some car or bus, using meanwhile his phone as a pastime. As may be seen, he interrupted his activity in order to understand something of the strange things that were taking place in his vicinity. Namely, a foreigner was turning around on the top of a stone shooting nervously in nearly every direction, even those which seemingly offered nothing to record - provided that there was anything to record at all in this totally ordinary place!! Surely, a complex of strange actions that had perhaps never been seen before in Lahaul...
Yesterday, while first preparing the work, I had followed the seemingly fashionable practice of "wegstempeln" this character... add that the Himalayan size of the mountains all around did not allow him to possess complete legs, let alone feet. In the Alps he would surely have received a more adequate treatment. Today, however, I returned on my steps: namely, as a rule I do not like the stempeln at all, preferring to have everything inside just "because it's there". Even more so with a character like this, who had truly materialized out of a total solitude and a nearly total darkness!
Lahaul is substantially the high basin of the river Chandra, which few kms west joins the Bhaga to form the Chandra-Baga, a big river that later, taking on the name Chenab, flows into Pakistan.

8 HF, Canon G1X, 28 mm equiv, ISO 640, f/5.6, 1/125 sec.

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GPS track: www.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/view.do?id=10846237