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The blue hour

            This shot was taken early in the morning from the balcony of the little hotel I was staying in Dulikhel (Nepal). Somewhere,  barely visible should be the mighty Himalayas, but Nepal was covered in a thick layer of smog, that already was there when I arrived at the beginning of March, but it got worse in the second part of April.

The result was that much of my travel plans were spoiled because  hiking in the hills was hardly pleasant. High temperatures and low visibility meant that I could forget great scenes of glorious mountains. 

But I had seen the mountains in the Annapurna region. I have met people that during their holiday in Nepal haven't seen the Himalayas at all. 

That said, if you have seen the images of Nepal at the moment with giant floods because of the monsoon, then I should not complain at all. Infrastructure in Nepal is again in many places destroyed, and that means they can start all over in the coming months. An ongoing battle presumably.

Taken in: Nepal / Central / Kābhre Palānchok / KavreNityaChandeswor9 (show map)

Taken on: May 16, 2024

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Camera: Sony SLT-A65V, f/10.0, 1/250 sec, 70mm (=105mm), ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Sony SLT-A65V
Lens:	17-50mm F2.8
Aperture:	f/10.0
Exposure Time:	0.004 sec (1/250)
Focal Length:	70mm (35mm equivalent: 105mm)
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Saturation:	High
Sharpness:	Hard
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop 25.11 (Windows)
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