Daily Photo – Gunung Mulu National Park
Low cloud fills a valley in this photo taken in the Gunung Mulu National Park while another layer of cloud shrouds the ridge leading to Mount Mulu.
Low cloud fills a valley in this photo taken in the Gunung Mulu National Park while another layer of cloud shrouds the ridge leading to Mount Mulu.
Clearly the boat had seen better days. The windshield and side glass had long since disappeared. I wondered if in fact they had been plexiglass that had turned yellow and opaque. Note also that there is no-one steering up front! As you'll see in tomorrow's photo, even this wire and pulley arrangement was no longer in service, the steering mechanism having been superseded again. But despite the engineering modifications, the boat floated and it got the job done.
If I ever get the opportunity to reshoot this, I'd do it differently.
A little way north up the Atlantic Coast from Cape Town is the beach community of Sunset Beach. On the day we went up there they were having a windsurfing (sailboarding? - Anyone know the difference? Anyone care?) competition that we stayed and watched for a while.
This photo is actually an HDR made from three different slides. I happened to have a -1, 0, +1 EV set of three slides for this scene so rather than just use the scan of one of them, I decided to take scans of all three and run them through Photomatix to get this result.
Of course, no great natural vista is truly complete without some form of man-made scar and this is no exception - the radio mast is five miles away from my location.