The Entrance to Chernobyl
This is where my best friend Will was “retained” by the military all day because he did not have his passport. He told me a little of his detainment. Part of it was in a bunker where he was allowed to watch a bit of Colombo dubbed in Ukrainian.
I don’t make any of this stuff up.
As for me, I got to go into the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. This was the first security gate of many that I have recently processed. I posted a full story from the Chernobyl Adventure here — there are two parts… they should make for a good Sunday read if you have not seen them before!
Yikes, Trey, that’s not somewhere I would want to be! But you are a brave soul that likes adventure and entertains us with your stories. I read the newsletter yesterday, loved the photos!! I passed them on to my two sisters that paint. Thanks for sharing all of your adventures with us!! Have a great Sunday, everyone!!
So…Did you eat glow snow?
Looks cold! Poor Will – you have lots of memories of that place!
Hi Trey… Snowy picture. I had a quick question for you. Have you heard of the term Auto focus bracketing. I used to have this feature in my old little digital Canon S2IS. It was pretty useful to get a razor sharp macro picture (combining 3 diff. focus to one picture to get amazing details in a macro).
I could do it the manual way in my nikon d90 but tend to loose too much time. Again it is not a warranted feature for a DSLR type camera… still wondering
Thanks for the comments. Gail – I hear you are back home – good!
Erik – hehe – I did hear the Geiger going off a few times… it seemed a little sketchy… I didn’t eat the yellow snow either
Sathya – yes I have – I think that is most valuable in macro photography with a tripod – getting each little layer of insects or other small things.
In a German newspaper i found an interesting article about a photographer who also went to Tschernobyl. In case you are interested here are the links to the article and the photographer’s website:
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-47901.html
http://www.fotodesign-lubricht.de/main.php?catID=2&serID=0
I have a song dedicated to Chernobil
- it is quite post-apocaliptic , but I like it, I dunno why..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfaYfiIhd4k
you can also download it from the description of the video ;
I plan on visiting Chernobil myself, to take some photos and to see it in person.
I travel to Ukraine every fall, so this is the first year I will have my Pentax K-x. Looking forward to some great photos plus learning to HDR. Thanks for the inspiration!
hey im wanting to go and do what youve done in pripyat and Chernobyl but how can i get entrance like you did without a tour? email me please how you did that haha
dylann@live.com.au
amazing photos by the way