Members UstadKhanAli Posted December 27, 2009 Members Share Posted December 27, 2009 Hey everyone!! I figured I'd share this with you...this morning I found out that three of my photos were selected for the Top 100 Travel Photos from LA Times readers for 2009!!! I have had the photos here on my Ken Lee Photography website and my personal Eleven Shadows website for a while, and there are links from my sites to the photos, or you can click on the links below!! http://www.latimes.com/travel/photos2009/ My three photos selected for the Top 100 Travel Photos on the LA Times website: My photo of us floating through the Amazon My photo of monks in Ladakh covering their ears from the clattery sound My photo of the otherworldly Lamayuru Monastery in Ladakh, of this earth, not of this earth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tremolounge Posted December 27, 2009 Members Share Posted December 27, 2009 I can see why -- gorgeous!!! Congrats! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John Sayers Posted December 27, 2009 Members Share Posted December 27, 2009 congrats Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted December 27, 2009 Members Share Posted December 27, 2009 Hey everyone!! I figured I'd share this with you...this morning I found out that three of my photos were selected for the Top 100 Travel Photos from LA Times readers for 2009!!! I have had the photos here on my Ken Lee Photography website and my personal Eleven Shadows website for a while, and there are links from my sites to the photos, or you can click on the links below!! http://www.latimes.com/travel/photos2009/ My three photos selected for the Top 100 Travel Photos on the LA Times website: My photo of us floating through the AmazonMy photo of monks in Ladakh covering their ears from the clattery soundMy photo of the otherworldly Lamayuru Monastery in Ladakh, of this earth, not of this earth. OK, Ken... I usually cut you a lot of slack but I have to say... ... on this front you cheat... ... I mean, you go to all these amazing looking places... :D Congrats! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members spokenward Posted December 27, 2009 Members Share Posted December 27, 2009 I think the monastery exterior is one of my favorites, too. That's wonderful recognition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ernest Buckley Posted December 27, 2009 Members Share Posted December 27, 2009 Hey Ken, Congrats, thats awesome. I knew you were talented, now more people know. Peace, EB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted December 27, 2009 Author Members Share Posted December 27, 2009 OK, Ken... I usually cut you a lot of slack but I have to say... ... on this front you cheat... ... I mean, you go to all these amazing looking places... :D Congrats! Well, I do gotta say that it's a lot easier to take photos when you're in these fantastic places!!!!! T'anks everyone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Beck Posted December 28, 2009 Members Share Posted December 28, 2009 That's cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Geoff Grace Posted December 28, 2009 Members Share Posted December 28, 2009 Wow! How cool is that!?! Congrats, Ken! Best, Geoff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sventvkg Posted December 28, 2009 Members Share Posted December 28, 2009 AWESOME ken!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members deanmass Posted December 28, 2009 Members Share Posted December 28, 2009 So which of these were D50, and which were Leica..? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted December 28, 2009 Author Members Share Posted December 28, 2009 Hey Dean, every single one of these were taken with the D50. I just got the Leica this summer, so I don't have a ton of photos taken with that. Any photo on my website taken before the Brazil trip was taken with the D50, or in some cases, the N70, a film camera....or this ancient Canon that I no longer have if you go back *really* far!!!! This is a photo of Bryan Carlstrom, the engineer for a bunch of stuff including Alice In Chains "Dirt", that I took last weekend when hanging out. No flash, dark room. It does pretty good, I think. Here's some other photos taken with the Leica. I'm showing you a bunch of these because you know you're interested in the LX3 (more or less the same camera as the Leica DLux 4): Crystal Cove, near Laguna Beach, CA, Oct 2009 Salvador, Brazil, Summer 2009 http://www.elevenshadows.com/travels/brazil2009/ Salvador, Brazil, Summer 2009 http://www.elevenshadows.com/travels/brazil2009/ Buyepongo @ The Echoplex http://www.elevenshadows.com/travels/miscellaneous/osmutantes2009 http://www.elevenshadows.com/travels/miscellaneous/osmutantes2009/index.htm for more from this concert with Buyepongo and Os Mutantes. I can't remember when this was taken...probably September. As you can tell, the Leica does *really* well in low light, much better than the D50, which is an older camera, like 4-5 years old, which for D-SLR technology is old. The new D-SLRs do much better in low light than the D50, which is not so good at low light situations. But it's just surprising that the Leica can do this well for a little point-and-shoot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cry Logic Posted December 28, 2009 Members Share Posted December 28, 2009 Very nice work. I'm envious of your travel exploits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted December 28, 2009 Author Members Share Posted December 28, 2009 Well, you live in a place that a lot of people want to travel to... Thanks for the great comments, though, and thank you to everyone else. Just to keep geeking out on camera equipment for a second, there's this new Nikon, the D3S, that has serious low-light capability. http://www.nikonusa.com/Find-Your-Nikon/Product/Digital-SLR/25466/D3S.html # count in a 12.1-megapixel sensor to produce extraordinarily rich files. # Low Noise ISO Sensitivity from 200 to 12,800 Renowned low-noise performance at 12,800, plus expanded settings to an astounding ISO 102,400 (equivalent) and ISO 100 (equivalent). So, 12,800 ISO...expandable to 102,400? Are you freakin' kidding me? My D50 - bear in mind that it's a budget camera that is 4-5 years old now - goes to 1600 ISO. And my little point-and-shoot Leica goes to a grainy 3200 ISO. Now I realize that the DS3 is over $5000 and I'm comparing it to cheap cameras, but still.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Richard King Posted December 28, 2009 Members Share Posted December 28, 2009 This just proves my theory that the talent that hangs out here is really unbeatable. Great shots there Ken. Congrats on the honor(s). (What am I doing up at 3:15 AM)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted December 28, 2009 Moderators Share Posted December 28, 2009 Really great photos. Congrats on such esteemed praise as well. That's got to be very gratifying. I love the Monks in particular. The way you've captured that famous robe color with their facial expressions. Just so captivating and a twist on the more common "monk photos" I've seen. You've got a good eye for seeing things others miss. Really nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted December 28, 2009 Author Members Share Posted December 28, 2009 Really great photos. Congrats on such esteemed praise as well. That's got to be very gratifying. I love the Monks in particular. The way you've captured that famous robe color with their facial expressions. Just so captivating and a twist on the more common "monk photos" I've seen. You've got a good eye for seeing things others miss. Really nice. Thanks! You might like this monk photo then, Lee! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted December 28, 2009 Moderators Share Posted December 28, 2009 Yeah! There's a twist. Did he ham in up without you asking? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted December 28, 2009 Author Members Share Posted December 28, 2009 He did indeed. I simply asked if I could take his photo. That's what I got!! We had been hanging out talking to them for quite some time, and there was clattery music with ten foot long horns going on for rehearsal for the Hemis Festival...and the hanging out is the key, not that I was doing this specifically for the photos. It was for the sake of hanging out. The monks joke around a lot, and that's something that people frequently don't see, and something I wanted to show -- that they're people too, and not people who do nothing but meditate and study Buddhist texts and dispense wisdom or whatever. Later, during the Hemis Festival, they did funny stuff like stomp puddles to splash the audience and things like that while performing their dances. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kendrix Posted December 28, 2009 Members Share Posted December 28, 2009 Just the color alone in all these shots is seductive. Great stuff. Congrats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rudolf von Hagenwil Posted December 28, 2009 Members Share Posted December 28, 2009 like the amazon one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members boosh Posted December 28, 2009 Members Share Posted December 28, 2009 Hey ken , Aztecman,... is that one available in a higher resolution? I love that Pic! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted December 28, 2009 Author Members Share Posted December 28, 2009 Yup, all of 'em are available in higher resolution. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members timmit65 Posted December 30, 2009 Members Share Posted December 30, 2009 Very nice shoots!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rjt Posted December 31, 2009 Members Share Posted December 31, 2009 Great work....good photos. Keep it up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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