社長 and I arrived 合歡山 yesterday. We must express our heartfelt thank to Henry that he helped us to do the transportation and accommodation. In addition, we lent us two HEQ5Pros to us. This is crucial important to us, as the weight we need to ship to Taiwan is much lower. One more point I would like to mention is that we found a Taxi driver to drive us around this week. Originally I want to hire a car and drive by myself, which is always the way I do when I go aboard. However, 社長’s suggest is right! The road in the mountain area is very rugged and difficult to ask for help when needed. So, found a tour guide Taxi driver can save money & convenient.
Our base is around the 清境 area. Since there are much visitor recently, we stated in 觀星園 for one night. Afterwards, we will move to 清境農場. The altitude is about 2000m. It was a long day! Both 社長 & I slept for only 2 to 3 hours before we went to Taiwan. So we took a bit more rest before we went to 小風口 (about 2800m). Anyway, the weather yesterday was foggy & haze. We don’t expect too much last night. It turned out that we have occasionally clear skies after 2:00am. It is on and off anyway! Time is limited! When 社長 was taking a rest in the Taxi, I took a few Milky way shot. At about 3:00am, the clear sky suddenly came out & we started to work! Poor me! The sky became too bright at about 4:00am and we were running out of time. I am too inexperience & sucked finally!
The photographic details are following:
Modified Canon 40D
Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @ 11mm f4
ISO1600
30s