Another crazy story

I simply had to post this photo, just because of its story. In the end Steemit is made for writing and this one definetly has a crazy story.

February was probably one of the worst month for taking photos. Landscape is very hard to photograph. If you don't have perfect conditions you won't get the photo that atleast i want. I had couple of photographing trips in February but not a single one gave me a photo, which was just insane. But it happens, i decided to go photograph on the days that conditions were not given to me.

Couple of days ago i finally bought myself new lens Samyang 12mm F2.0 ULTRA wide angle. Absolutely lovely lens. I decided to go test them this weekend and they are such an upgrade from kit lens. I mean kit lens were perfect to start with but this upgrade was much needed. I also love wide angle and i use it most of the time. I will do the review of lens very soon.

Enough about past days and my new lens, let's get to the story. This weekend was meant to test new lens and get familiar with it. My first location was this waterfall which was not easy to reach by a car. There is offroad made for cars but since we have a lot of snow and it was extremly cold, it was very very bad offroad. But me and my friend still wanted to see the waterfall and photograph it so we decided to just go. We were driving in pretty big van which is not meant for offroad. While driving down to the waterfall we had noticed how much snow there is on the road and how steep road it is. We started asking ourselves are we going to get back and we were like let's hope so. Once we got to the waterfall I was really happy that I could finally test new lens. I took 3 hours, yes 3 hours to photograph this waterfall, you might say what an amateur i am, but this was mostly testing the lens, It's prime lens with manual focus only, whole new world, but it was great. 3 hours went by like half an hour i didn't even realise i am taking the photo so long. I tested the lens and then did the panorama of around 6 photos again. First 3 photos for ground that i mostly cropped in post. I took ground with polarizer filter and waterfall with ND filter. Everything was going well, then we decided to go back to the next location and here comes the trouble. While trying to get back up on this steep road full of snow the van couldn't do it. The problem was only one part where it was extremly steep. It started digging on the incline because the road was full of snow and slippery. We tried few time even with full speed and nothing. We didn't know what to do we really didn't want to call for a assistance, so i decided to improvise which i learned in video production that i work, we always have to improvise there. I decided to go get some branches so i could put them on the road for better grip. Well that didn't help, i wanted to get some some rocks or sand that i could put on the road but i couldn't find any. We had an idea that we just have to clean the snow off the road but we didn't have a shovel, so what we could do was clean the road with our feet LOL well that took us some time but in the end it actually worked. we managed to get back and got ourselves some food before next location. I wanted to share this story because i like to share the effort for some photos. And i love this part of the photography, the effort that you take for the photo. I wasn't mad or sad when this happend i got a lot of adrenaline and it was extremly fun.

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Category	Landscape
Aperture	8.0
Shutter speed	0.5 s
ISO	100
Camera	Sony A6000
Lens	Samyang 12mm F2.0
Filter	ND, polarizer

Sincerely,