The untouched beauty of Kyrgyzstan
August 30, 2018 1:35 AM Subscribe
Simply stunning, now I need a sabbatical from work.
posted by arcticseal at 2:57 AM on August 30, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by arcticseal at 2:57 AM on August 30, 2018 [1 favorite]
Simply amazing. Makes me long to be anywhere but here.
posted by slogger at 6:06 AM on August 30, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by slogger at 6:06 AM on August 30, 2018 [1 favorite]
Beautiful photos, but not quite accurate for him to describe the landscape as "untouched" when so many of the photos are showing yurts, livestock grazing, or landscapes shaped by grazing. There are plenty of anthropogenic impacts, just not a lot of infrastructure.
posted by Dip Flash at 6:41 AM on August 30, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by Dip Flash at 6:41 AM on August 30, 2018 [2 favorites]
I took a very similar set of photos last week. We were about 20 minutes outside Minneapolis, near the Farmington Walmart, and the mountainous vistas just opened up before us. Well you can just imagine how shocked we were. I'll see if I can find them, they've got to be around here somewhere...
posted by Cris E at 7:40 AM on August 30, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by Cris E at 7:40 AM on August 30, 2018 [1 favorite]
And a man cannot be the same/After seeing the Kirghiz Light.
posted by rocketman at 8:22 AM on August 30, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by rocketman at 8:22 AM on August 30, 2018 [1 favorite]
not quite accurate for him to describe the landscape as "untouched"
Yeah, his photography is better than his rather overblown prose. He used the words "crazy" and "intimate" a few too many times, too.
posted by Greg_Ace at 8:28 AM on August 30, 2018 [2 favorites]
Yeah, his photography is better than his rather overblown prose. He used the words "crazy" and "intimate" a few too many times, too.
posted by Greg_Ace at 8:28 AM on August 30, 2018 [2 favorites]
wow. this is a part of the world I have long been fascinated by and would love to visit. more so now...
posted by supermedusa at 8:33 AM on August 30, 2018
posted by supermedusa at 8:33 AM on August 30, 2018
Cris E I'd love to see your photos outside of Minneapolis you describe.
Beautiful post.
posted by yoga at 10:00 AM on August 30, 2018
Beautiful post.
posted by yoga at 10:00 AM on August 30, 2018
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