文档介绍：178 chapter will help you improve your outdoor surrounding rainforest fl oor to heights of 5000
photographs and give you invaluable tips on to 6000 feet. Roraima-tepui, the largest, is
photographing wildlife and protecting your almost 15 miles long and several miles wide.
PERFECT DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY camera equipment in unpredictable environs. Th e tepuis are protected by the Venezuelan
government as part of the country’s national
W E ALL WANT TO BE park system. National Geographic had obtained
A NSEL ADAMS permission for me and a writer, Tom Melham,
to escort a mountain rescue team as they
It was early in the morning when we set
practiced for a month on several of the nearly
the helicopter down on Roraima-tepui in
100 tepuis.
southeast Venezuela. Th ese giant and ancient
granite monoliths rise straight from the
Angel Falls, the world’s tallest waterfall, shot from a bird’s-eye view while I was on assignment for a National
Geographic book, Beyond the Horizon. I spent several weeks photographing the tepuis in southern Venezuela. 20mm
lens, 1/500 second at
We had the luxury of air support (two from a nearby village. Two local tribes had 179
helicopters) on this assignment, which allowed recently been warring, and I didn’t want to be
us to visit Roraima-, Auyan- (the home of mistaken for an adversary, so I moved with as
Angel Falls, the tallest waterfall in the world), much noise as I could to give them plenty of CHAPTER 10: PHOTOGRAPHING THE NATURAL
and Cuquenan-tepuis. Normally this is a hike warning that I was in the vicinity. I cautiously
of several days from small villages, themselves approached the people, and as I drew closer
very remote. Wandering about the vast I realized that their huge size was due to
geological wonderland of Roraima’s surface, their backpacks and camera bags. Th ey were
I saw a couple of people standing perilously photographing the amazing view of the jungle
close to the nea