Members UstadKhanAli Posted July 23, 2015 Members Share Posted July 23, 2015 This is CRAZY. I'm a featured member on the National Geographic Your Shot Page!!!! Wow!!!!! So this isn't just one shot. I've been featured in the National Geographic Daily Dozen twice, which is an enormous honor. But this is off the hook, as they are featuring me on the front page, featuring all the photos and all. http://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/people/ Here's a screen shot in case it changes by the time some of you see this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted July 23, 2015 Author Members Share Posted July 23, 2015 Oh, as a bonus, my new shot has reached "Upcoming" on 500px.com, and I thought I'd share it with you, seeing as it's all high-res and all that. This is Brush Creek Falls in beautiful West Virginia, USA. Thanks!!! https://500px.com/photo/115849337/almost-heaven-by-ken-lee?utm_campaign=photo_reached_upcoming&utm_content=textlink&utm_medium=email&utm_source=500px&utm_term=notification Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rjt Posted July 23, 2015 Members Share Posted July 23, 2015 Congrats. Fantastic images! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 1001gear Posted July 23, 2015 Members Share Posted July 23, 2015 eye candy. Yum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 eye candy. Yum. His photography is absolutely delicious. Congratulations Ken! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Anderton Posted July 23, 2015 Members Share Posted July 23, 2015 Not really surprising, given your work. But nice that other people recognize it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted July 23, 2015 Members Share Posted July 23, 2015 Geez! There are a few there I haven't seen. Great! The bus... that's crazy man. I mean, crazy it's there (I'm guessing it's an 'installation' but crazy, anyhow). As always, stunning photos. PS... I hadn't seen the temple shot that pops up as the feature image sometimes. That's really something. You know, you're a great photo -- but it doesn't hurt that you find these amazing places... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted July 23, 2015 Author Members Share Posted July 23, 2015 Geez! There are a few there I haven't seen. Great! The bus... that's crazy man. I mean' date=' crazy it's there (I'm guessing it's an 'installation' but crazy, anyhow).[/quote'] It is. I get a lot of comments about that bus, especially since I light painted it so it looks really otherworldly! For some reason, South Americans in particular seem to go nuts over photos like that, and keep wanting to visit just to take photos of the place!!! As always, stunning photos. PS... I hadn't seen the temple shot that pops up as the feature image sometimes. That's really something. You know, you're a great photo -- but it doesn't hurt that you find these amazing places... Location, location, location. I spend a LOT of time researching where to take photos, gaining admittance, checking out Google Earth, and determining the best time to take photos of certain places. A lot of work goes into it. Anyway, thanks. And now, the temple. Here's what I wrote about the temple, actually a stupa, on my Facebook photography page. A friend of mine got the attention of the guy who built it, and he contacted me, complimenting me on the photo, and describing the difficult circumstances under which he built it: "Shanti Stupa is a steep 555 steps above Leh at over 3657m/12,000 ft. in elevation, and was built by Japanese Buddhist Bhikshu Gyomyo Nakamura in 1991 when there were no roads or lights, using six donkeys for help. The stupa holds relics of the Buddha at its base, and was enshrined by the Dalai Lama. I've gone here on each of my three visits to Ladakh, the first time in 1997, six years after it was completed. As a bonus, I have been in contact with Mr. Nakamura, thanks to Joan L., and I am honored and super excited to say that he's been describing how he built this and was complimentary toward my photos of the Shanti Stupa area!!!! Shanti Stupa is lit up at night....up until midnight. After that, I was able to light paint it and be able to photograph the sky as well without too much contrast from the lit-up stupa." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted July 23, 2015 Author Members Share Posted July 23, 2015 Not really surprising' date=' given your work. But nice that other people recognize it. [/quote'] And to have it be the editors at Nat Geo is kinduva bonus. Thanks, Craig! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted July 23, 2015 Author Members Share Posted July 23, 2015 His photography is absolutely delicious. Congratulations Ken! It was even tastier when I used Polaroid. Mmmmmm, dipping those photos into some garlic sauce...seriously delicious. Thanks! And thanks for using the Phil thumb!!! I like it when Phil uses a virtual thumb of his to do a thumbs up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted July 23, 2015 Author Members Share Posted July 23, 2015 Congrats. Fantastic images! Thanks, Ray!!! eye candy. Yum. And our eyes are hungry!!!!!! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AlamoJoe Posted July 23, 2015 Members Share Posted July 23, 2015 Congratulations Ken! Nat Geo is definetly the big time! Well deserved! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted July 24, 2015 Author Members Share Posted July 24, 2015 Congratulations Ken! Nat Geo is definetly the big time! Well deserved! Thanks. And yeah, National Geographic? That's pretty big, especially if one of my photos can make it into the print edition!!!! There's two things that made my head spin as a kid for photography: NG and the Travel Section to the LA Times. With the latter, I used to have this paper route when I was 14, but with the Herald Examiner (I'm dating myself, I realize, as I've just name-checked W.R. Hearst's completely defunct newspaper! ), and I would sometimes trade one of my extra copies for a Sunday edition of the LA Times from another paper route kid because my parents never got the Times. And I traded newspapers was because I really wanted to see these phenomenal places and mind-blowing photos of far off places. I would often not even bother waiting to get home and would sit on a curb somewhere and read the Travel Section!!! So to me, #1 was having photos appear in the Travel Section, and not just that, but actually winning the Reader's Travel Photo of the Year. It's huge for me because it just takes me back to being a kid and having that sense of wonder. That's never gone away. And the other was National Geographic. My school had some of these Nat Geo magazines on the shelves, and during free time, I would check them out, dreaming of traveling to places like Africa or the Himalayas, wondering how it felt to be there, and looking at these amazing photos of people that I could barely imagine were like. So I don't know what NG is like for other photographers, but that's what it conjures up for me. So I believe that's what these two things are about for me. It's this total dream of a kid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Beck Posted July 25, 2015 Members Share Posted July 25, 2015 Awesome Ken !!! Congrats !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted July 26, 2015 Author Members Share Posted July 26, 2015 Thanks, Beck!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members techristian Posted July 28, 2015 Members Share Posted July 28, 2015 UstadKhanAli your pictures have always been PHENOMINAL ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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