Herder

By wileys

17 July 2009

Category: China, Ulanhot

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The jolliest Mongolian I've ever met.

My favorite photos are usually the ones I don’t expect to take. In this case, I hiked down from the hill where I was camping in hopes of getting some pictures of the goat herd I had seen in the valley below. While I was shooting though, I quickly realized that, while I didn’t have a clear idea of what I wanted, what I was doing wasn’t creating it. And just like that, as though he had read my mind, the herder picked up one of the kids and flashed this jolly smile. In the end, I deleted every photo I had taken other than the ones of the herder and kid even though I’d set out intending to photograph the herd.

For a full account of my brief adventure in Inner Mongolia, see the Ulanhot post from 17 July 2009 on my blog.

D300, 50 mm, F16, 1/125”, ISO 200

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