Satwa Guna – The beginning of light
posted on 12th of september, 2007
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I still have a few hours till departure . . . my house is filled with climbing gear... photo equipment...video equipment... some pressure and background music. I already feel the weariness of the two day flight and another three day march until the high areas. I check again and again the blades of the ice axes, the carabiner screws, the altitude bots, the ropes, the altimeter and everything that may seem not thoroughly checked. The optical equipment has already been “polished” by skillful men from IOR; Chargers of all kinds lay beautifully arranged for power charging. I empty the storages and the hdds of my laptop. I seal the photo and video cameras. Weather will be constantly wet and cold there...helplessly wet and cold.
The scale always pulls my ears ”take that out...much too heavy...replace it with something lighter”. Slowly but surely things begin to gather and crowd in my rucksacks, all will pass through the scale and checking filter.
I leave to the end the photo and video equipment...too much packing strategy required, especially as I am attempting to cheat a bit the scale… and taking more hand luggage kilos than allowed. It’s not the first time so I will not feel guilty. Obviously I will put on my climbing boots here. Yes, I am aware I will look like a diver with flippers, but this is what it takes to look good for the scales.
Two bottles of Romanian Transylvanian tzuica slipped inside my backpack will be the delight of cold gloomy evenings, the passport, the tickets, the money, and the soft sound of doors closing behind. I am on my way…shortly to arrive there. The Satwa Guna journey/expedition begins.
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Tags: climbing departure guna journey satwa
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Comments (4)
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Good Luck Stelian! Leave the tzuica at base camp for partying upon your safe return.
- posted by
Fotogeek
on September 13, 2007 |
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Wow what an adventure! Take care, watch your step, bundle up and prepare for inspiration take off. It seems you have a borrowed bag with you belonging to one of your co-workers. Your goal is to return it to Tangie filled with what you have learned. Enjoy the journey!
- posted by
Littlemacproductions
on September 12, 2007 |
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Good luck! And what is this"Romanian Transylvanian tzuica"? I wish you many beautiful views from the roof of the world! Just do it!
- posted by
Biserko
on September 12, 2007 |
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Have a good trip and get back alive with lots of images :-)
- posted by
Freezingpictures
on September 12, 2007 |
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Pavalache Stelian
(Photodesign)
Bucuresti, RO
>Who are you photography?
Why such question? Otherwise how? How could I talk to the light? I am trying to plunge into its world and bring it to the surface under the shape of letters. What an impossible mission has been assigned to me. It is as if I would rudely and constantly rummage the mystery of the infinite man. But...do you remember the shooting starts? ...well, knead infinite stars in your palm and then, as genuinely as a child, throw them back into the universe. Men and worlds will emerge. Somewhere out there, a tiny bit of light is my world and the light within it.
Through light, all things have shape and enhance effect. Light reveals itself to me and I am surprised. I do not believe in shapes and colors. . . . I do not even know if they truly exist. I do not believe in the moral of shapes, I do not believe in the moral of lightless words, I do not believe that . . . I do not believe that light is ultimate or absolute . . . I press the shutter towards infinite worlds . . . (even my world), and they all fall mingled through the child's fingers and they settle plainly on the silverish forever. A soulful image. I close the shutter . . . darkness in the hand of the lightless child.
Wondering what all this has got to do with photography?
This is how I feel it.
This is my creed . . . ABOUT LIGHT.
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