Maarten Takens' photostream Pro User

A try-out with my 70-200 4.0L lens , it has a great stabilization and i wanted to see how long i would be able to take sharp photos .. well in this case the 1,4X converter was also still mounted and i was too lazy to remove this :D

but even with 5,6 i was able to produce sharp photos ( up to ISO 3200 )

Here we where in Oymyakon .. the people whom i was travveling with new that i do lightpainting and i took some orbs with me to draw the coldest balls of light ever done before ..

the original color Blue was unusable , due to the extreme cold we had -51 at this time the wire was so stiff that i could not use it anymore .. the red one died ( batterie ) and the yellow ones survived and with them i managed to draw this pic ... in total we where outside for 45 minutes to get this best result :D the green is done with a LED Lenser P14 with colorfilter .. i thought lets just drop some orbs here ... but that was far from easy .. the camera batteries did a splendid job here my tripod was frozen solid , the head could not be moved anymore ..

we got a bit lost on our way back .. but after 15 minutes we found our guesthouse ..an unforgettable moment and for most an unforgettable Holiday

the -71,2 i drawed here is the lowest temperature ever measured in Oymyakon or in any inhabited place on earth !

Well here is another cold photo :D have many more on stock ... taken on the last day in Magadan during anothere wonderful sunset .. in front of us lays a frozen sea ..

the trip from Yakutskt via Oymyakon ended here ,we followed the entire Road of Bones ( except the old part of the route from Tomtor )

an very exciting and recommending trip ! more info can be found in visityakutia.com
Hansl. Geijtenbeel already mentioned it in his commend .. but if you stand here you really feel like you are standing on the edge of the world

spring is coming , and as we are welcoming the warmer temperatures i am showing this photo to you ... as a good memory to my trip trough Yakutia on the Road of bones ... after sunset we could see these superb colors low fogg and the cold blue colors on the snow , that really reflects the actual temperature we had .. around -45 ..