Peaks In The Clouds 02

I met a brilliant sunrise finally!

Mountains have their own micro-climate, I learned it this time. What a sunny day, but there was still raining around the peaks, and wind was so strong even my tripods couldn’t stand steadily, the temperature was cold, too. I was trembling in the wind with shaking hands to take these photos as the warm sunlight shinning behind me, it made me realize underestimating the micro-climate of snow mountains was a huge mistake.

Keep yourself warm is the priority thing when shooting sunrise even at the foot of snow mountains!

不要看这张很温暖的样子,其实我拍这个日出的时候差点被冻死。原来雪山都有自己的“微气候”,天气预报不靠谱,明明是晴天,这里依旧在下雨,还有狂风,如何形容风大呢?就是用了三脚架都在晃啊!

不过学到了一课就是,而且保暖是雪山摄影得第一要务,哪怕在山脚下。

A Cafe in Baisha Ancient Town / 白沙古镇的一个咖啡馆

Baisha Ancient Town is not a famous travel spot near Yulong Snow Mountain in Yunnan, it’s a small but less commercial town, here I met a German cafe owner, he is a kind person and we talked about lots, from coffee to travel things. He mainly uses siphon to brew coffee and he insists roasting coffee beans to dark roast, I learned a lot and got inspired by him. The cafe named Baisharona (白沙罗那), if you go to there and have a good coffee time with him, you can go along the street about 100 meters as my photo below indicates.

Oh, he does NOT want to be photographed, so please don’t aim your phones or camera at him.

白沙古镇是一个还不怎么商业化的古镇,有许多在地人生活,所以感觉很舒适,与完全商业化的束河完全不同,有机会的话就去逛逛。我在这里遇到了一个德国人开的咖啡馆,他很健谈,我们从咖啡红酒到旅行说了很多,从他这里也学了很多咖啡知识,也受到许多启发。我把网址告诉过他,不过看他那中国移动的信号,估计想再打开我网站的可能性就不大了(最近从国内打开网站已经很困难了,毕竟时代如此)。从图中的位置向前走100米就可以看到了,名字是“白沙罗那”,他坚持用虹吸壶做精品咖啡,豆子也都是很深的,想去聊天打发时间可以考虑下。他不喜欢被别人拍照,所以还是注意下礼仪吧。