The reverse side of the photo

I can travel with a drone, a tripod, 3 different lenses for my camera, nothing can replace being in the right place to take the picture. In search of the best shots, I go out of my way to get the best angle. Find out what the other side of the lens looks like.

In height

I show a lot of photos during my international conferences. And each time I explain how I do to take a picture of myself. One of my often used techniques is to climb up the side of the road to set up my tripod. I then go back down to my bike and control my camera remotely adding a delay that gives me time to ride a bit. This is how I proceeded for the following two examples:

In the Caucasus Mountains, Georgia.

In the middle of the beautiful island of Taiwan.

A few months ago I rode again with my German friend Freddy in Chile and Argentina. This dear Freddy, certainly influenced by our few experiences in riding together, and probably tired of waiting for me when I stop constantly to take my pictures, has also recently got himself a camera.

I asked him to take occasional pictures of me trying to find my angles. Including this other wall climbing to get height on the photo!

I had tried myself for a higher point of view. And in the end I didn't even keep the pictures!

The feet in water

Water is always a positive point in a photo. She brings life and is often a great foreground (as I wrote in a previous post). In an attempt to take the next scene, I walked in this icy river in southern Chile. The water was coming straight down from the glaciers and was so close to freezing that I couldn't even feel my feet. In the end, the image of my friends Davide and Freddy is not even fantastic, but whoever risks nothing has nothing! (For my adventures with these two Europeans, Right here!.)

I have both feet in the icy water to try another point of view of the camp shared with my two friends.

Very often, I also try to be as close as possible to the surface of the water. I like the proximity of the ripples or rocks that generally line the beaches.

Dressed in all my layers to analyze my makeup.

Is it more interesting in terms of the water?

Off the beaten track

Finally, when in the distance I see animals that could be interesting, I do not hesitate to cross the fences or the distance that separate me. I come back empty-handed most of the time ...

I just came back from trying to take some flamingos photo. Again a failure since the birds fled before I got close enough to them.

But sometimes my efforts pay off! As in those pictures of llamas and guanacos in southern Chile.

A few llamas.

And a guanaco.