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!
October 18th, 2009 07:26 | Gail Stayton Moshier
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!!
October 18th, 2009 09:43 | Erik
So…Did you eat glow snow?
October 18th, 2009 09:59 | casusan
Looks cold! Poor Will – you have lots of memories of that place!
October 18th, 2009 10:46 | sathya sayee
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
October 18th, 2009 10:54 | Stuck In Customs
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.
October 19th, 2009 20:58 | Udo
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