This is my first use of the pixel shift feature in the A7R3. It is also my first use of Sony's free downloadable, Viewer and Edit software programs which recognized the multiple RAW pixel shifted images and allow you to create and save a composite RAW image as an ARQ file. The latest upgrade to Lightroom imported the ARQ file for normal editing. Having done all this I can say it really adds to the workflow. Are the results worth it? Too early to say.
Some recent architecture images from a paid photoshoot for a client for their Medical Center leasing portfolio. Most images were captured with the FE 16-35 GM
The San Pedro Creek Culture Park recently opened in SATX. This addition will transform the downtown drainage ditch into a linear park. It aims to highlight the history and culture of the city that originated from the banks of the creek 300 years ago and provides a new public recreational space. More images to come.
Frogfish wrote:
That would be awesome Joshua - thank you I'll PM you tomorrow (past midnight here now).
I think age-wise we are not too far apart (I hit 60 this year) ? However I've lost 39 kgs over the past 2 years and hiking in the mountains of Nepal and China has definitely improved my fitness/health. I'd recommend it to most people.
Your trip sounds awesome and yes we tend to focus on the positives and generally forget the negative aspects of any trip or at least their significance lessens - such as my chronic insomnia at extreme altitudes (4,000 - 6,000m) !
Thanks again Joshua. Badaling and Mutianyu (better than Badaling) are fully restored sections of the wall. Jinshanling is partly restored (still has a cable car up though so that helps) but there are many other sections (of course - with over 6,000 kms of Great Wall !) that easily surpass them. I'll post some shots from Gubeikou and Jiankou later. Jiankou is terrifying .. and utterly superb. Take a look at this video of Jiankou in full screen (it's not mine - I took my drone but my video is not in the same league as this) I didn't take all of this route (I was way too terrified in places to do it all) but a lot of it :
it's really worth watching this 5 minute video - this is the Great Wall as you have NEVER seen it before !
Thank you for the video, Kevin! I was speechless watching it; I watched it again and again. The video shows the advancement of camera-mounted drones at its best. The terrain where the section was built upon is incredibly steep and tough to climb, let alone to built a wall of that magnitude. At the same time it reminds me how many souls were lost for that over so many years and the incredible amount of suffering those folks had to endure, if they survived. It is simply mind boggling.
I am looking forward to seeing your images from those two sections of the Great Wall.
AGeoJO wrote:
Thank you for the video, Kevin! I was speechless watching it; I watched it again and again. The video shows the advancement of camera-mounted drones at its best. The terrain where the section was built upon is incredibly steep and tough to climb, let alone to built a wall of that magnitude. At the same time it reminds me how many souls were lost for that over so many years and the incredible amount of suffering those folks had to endure, if they survived. It is simply mind boggling.
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Thanks Joshua. Yes the wall there is incredible - quite magnificent still even in it's dilapidated state. And yes incredibly steep - I went up a number of those steps (e.g Heavenly Steps). One I went up is called Beijing Knot and is very similar to Heavenly Steps except they re not steps as the steps have long since collapsed and it's a straight climb up whatever remains.
It started out looking like about 50m at 75-80 degrees, still a bit of a wobbly legs climb with a 25kg pack on my back (I had camping, photographic & cooking gear plus food and 3-4L (= 3-4kgs) of water since obviously there is no water on the Wall. I'd come off the wall every 2 days to get more water from local villages.
After the initial 50m and just when I thought I'd made it to the top, it flattens out for 20m before there is another 30m climb at 80-85 degrees !! It was starting to get dark and I didn't want to try going down that 50m so the only way was up - it took me 2 hours to climb that 80m I camped at the very top.
The blog post I'm writing for my new website is going to be called 'Sleeping With A Million Ghosts' since there are hundreds of thousands of bodies buried under and within the walls themselves.
Cooking dinner and my bivy at the top of Beijing Knot
I camped at the very top. 
