good morning guys and welcome to another edition of the sri lanka travel
photography vlogs.... i don't really talk like that Keats and I woke up early this
morning to come here this is Ravana falls when we got here
and there's like hardly any water falling because it's been so dry and
it'd make things worse let me run you across onto the bridge we've been
driving down this epic valley incredible Valley in the tuk-tuk and look at the
sky there's like beautiful wispy colourful clouds down the valley
sometimes you just don't win so anyways we're at Ravana Falls as I said there's
no water or very little water but we're still gonna hike up and see if we can
make a photo
okay this was a failed mission because apparently there's no trail to the top
up to where it looks like there's the nice waterfall so the only place you can
really photograph from is down on the first two sets of false return that
photogenic or from the platform which would have been okay with a big sky but
yeah there's no water no way to get up so a little bit of a fail
to top use a little bit sad that I couldn't get up to the top waterfall you
probably could scramble up there if you didn't have a bunch of camera gear but I
do we're still trying to make some photos I think one of the things when
you come to a location like this that's not underwhelming but just doesn't have
a whole lot of water is to go long bring out your longest lens possible
because when you're wide you can really maybe only get one to three different
compositions at best
as soon as you pull out a telephoto lens it gives you so much more variety it
allows you to just like totally expand on your creativity you can focus in on
the details you can search for patterns in the water you can play with different
shutter speeds to get now you know silkier smoother water or sharper water
there's a lot more you can do yeah basically I think the long lens kind of
unleashes your creativity and so yeah I have the long lens on that being said I
don't know that I've made a photo I like but I'm trying
I wouldn't call this a failed morning mission it was still a lot of fun and
that's the whole point is just getting out and having fun you get a photo it's
a bonus so we're gonna have more fun this afternoon I'm gonna hit up another
photo location all right now it's time to hit up the tuk-tuk and breakfast
we've been working all day and now heading up for sunset to another kind of
classic iconic spot here in Ella Sri Lanka we're going to a place called
Athens speak to maybe a 10-minute tuktuk right away
maybe less and then I'm told about a 20 minute hike of so should be fun
so I should clarify that this isn't Adam peak, Adams peak is not that far from
here but it's a bigger peak this is little adam's peak which is probably fly
on the lens get off there little adam's peak is littler smaller and yeah
hopefully it's still nice I find that with photography so often when you go up
to an epic viewpoint it's not the best spot because you usually want to be
photographing whatever you're standing on top of so I think this might be
better in a lot of ways there's some huge Hills some nice mountains around
here there's some clouds in the sky so yeah hopefully this works out
so after hiking up and losing probably a pint of sweat made it to the top of
little adam's peak the views are epic like phenomenally phenomenall moly yeah
it's a word now but I think it's probably a sunrise location just because
the light kind of gets trapped behind these mountains back that way so I think
right now I'm gonna kind of treat this as a scouting mission we might come back
tomorrow at sunrise but I'm not gonna discount the fact that maybe there's
still a shot tonight so gonna wander around and at the very least I'll pull
out the long lens and maybe try to capture some of the details of the road
down there or pick out a tree or just pick out some details in general so and
wander around and see what we can come up with
you see what up okay I was set up and a bit of a crowd so I didn't talk about
the photos but I was basically just shooting the vistas big open view for
stop medium grad holding in light and yeah it's they're pretty average I think
we definitely have to come back for sunrise but then as I popped up the hill
I came to the other side and Keats's over here and this guy is just insane
here there's not a whole lot going on actually there's basically nothing going
on in the foreground but that sky is so unreal that you almost don't need
anything else so and a hand-holdin image of this and we're gonna hike down we'll
come back up in the morning
Keats what's happening looks like we're locked in it's 5
o'clock in the morning yeah security can't you just break the the lock open
with your teeth ok so a bit of a fail this morning due to the hotel locking at
sin I would be lying if I said that was the first time that happened that
actually happens a lot now I'll get down to the front desk and then I'll spend
like a half an hour trying to find a security guard to open the front gate
but this morning we just couldn't get out so sadly we didn't get to photograph
a little Adam speak a second time but do you think I did get a photo yesterday
yesterday night at sunset so I'm glad I took photos because I guess you just
never know when you're gonna get locked into a hotel and that's it for today's
episode obviously a little bit short but that's how it goes sometimes and I think
I still have one episode left from here in Sri Lanka wildlife photography in
Noida wale National Park it should be fun
see you there peace
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