Tibetan nomads have roamed the widest, highest plain on the planet since, well no one really knows for how long - certainly 2500+ years. They were and still are the driving force in Buddhism's major concessions to Bön, the ancient belief system of animism and magic that held sway across the entire region. 10% of today's Tibetans are what we call Bönpo. You could say Bön is the core of Vajrayana Tantric Buddhism.
Sony 55/1.8 - f5.6 : ladies in full livery to visit the ancient gompa
This is one of the many keepers of the battle between a male hooded merganser vs. crayfish from earlier in the year. Granted the images look a little bit similar to each other but this one is fresh off the iMac and as such, hasn't been posted yet...
Looking at 3 Nestling Great Egrets.
Cropped; tripod mounted FE 100-400mm GM set to 400mm and A7rIII, silent shutter.
ISO 100, f5.6, 1/500 second.
Exposure corrected +0.98 Stops.
Here are a couple of homegrown flower images using the A7RIII and Canon 100 f/2.8L IS macro on metabones. To get the whole flower (or nearly) in focus these are stacked images. The orchid shot is 12 images and the zygo cactus image is 10 images
