Perhaps some other LuLanders saw the 30mins film about the above river on the BBC last night.
It was in wonderful black and white, and had a look that would have made me very happy to have created as a series of stills. In fact, if I could, I would have run out there and then and shot such shots even though I have neither drone nor helicopter. Nor river, come to think about it, and certainly no snow.
The presentation of the river was somewhat contrasty, but oh so graphically beautiful because of it. There was a musical soundtrack that consisted of the kind of groans and grunts that remind me of moving funiture across a wooden floor, as well as of the imagined noise of an old alien spaceship taking off for places unknown. Over, or should that be beneath it - a tiny female voice saying something that I was unable to discern, whether I turned the volume higher or lower. As it's the BBC, I suppose I have to blame my ears rather than anything else.
It was an incredibly gripping film, in my estimation, and yet again underlines my belief that the cinematographers have the better-developed visual eye, apart from the resources and gravitas, of course.
I am clearly not any kind of landscape photo-lover guy, but this film is something quite else and worth catching, should it return. It's called Upstream, if my memory holds well enough.
Rob
