D1, from Nanjing to Beijing, rent a car and drive to Jinshanling, watch the sunset at Jinshanling, stay in a well-known farmhouse in Jinshanling
D2, watch the sunrise at Jinshanling, go to Saihanba Yudaokou Scenic Area, stay at Chengde Weichang Wenjie Family Apartment
D3, visit the source of Luanhe River, Qixing Lake, colorful, Mulan Autumn Macaque Cultural Park, Sacred Tree, Erlong Spring, Sun Lake, Grand Canyon, Guishan to watch the sunset, and stay in Wenjie Family Apartment in Chengde Paddock
D4, watch the sunrise at Taoshan Lake, visit Shenlong Waterfall, Dianjiangtai, and Miyue Lake, return to Beijing, and stay at Beijing Liqiang Hotel in Huairou
D5, return the car, visit the Bird’s Nest and Water Cube, stay at the North Langyue Qingnian Lake Store
D6, Beijing to Ulan Butong, Aobao Back Mountain to shoot the sunset, stay in Yiren Villa
D7, Sunrise in Beigou, visit Wucai Mountain, Wild Duck Lake, and a ditch, take pictures of galloping horses, horses stepping on water, take pictures of Aobao starry sky at night, stay in Yiren Villa
D8, Sunrise in Tufenggou, visit Nanjing, take photos of grassland portraits, sunset camel shadows, stay in Yiren Villa
D9, Aobao spit out the sunrise, take pictures of eight steeds, Panlong Canyon, and the mountain behind Princess Lake, and stay in Yiren Villa
D10, Sunrise at Princess Lake, go to Wuling Mountain to shoot sunset, stay at Fuling Express Hotel
D11, shoot the sunrise of Wuling Mountain, return to Beijing, take the high-speed train back to Nanjing
The dam is a knot in the heart of every photographer. The colorful autumn scenery, the cattle and sheep walking freely, and the warm light slanting on the earth, outline the image of beautiful outlines for all things. No matter how you look at it, you like it.
As the saying goes: heart is not as good as action. On the eve of the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China, our six partners from Nanjing - vacuum flask, Yueshangxilou, Doudouxin, Lebin, explorer idler, looking back at the recession, finally got together After the holiday, embarked on a journey to find the most beautiful autumn colors in China.
As the convener of the event, I made a self-driving and group itinerary. First, I drove the Jinshanling and Saihanba scenic spots with better road conditions, and then took the Ulan Butong with some off-road routes and the fog on the complicated winding mountain road with the group. Lingshan Scenic Area, after this trip, everyone has a feeling that "you don't look at the water when you come back from Jiuzhaigou, and you don't look at the mountains when you come back from Huangshan". In the words of the group member Yueshangxilou: when you come back from the dam, there will be no scenery in the world.
Without further ado, let me introduce our itinerary to you in detail.
At around 9:40 in the morning on September 17, our group arrived at XX Car Rental in Beijing South Railway Station, completed the 4-day rental procedures of the Chevrolet Captiva 4WD 7-seat off-road vehicle, and then drove all the way to Jinshanling. Here are a few words, the trunk of the Captiva is relatively small, and the luggage space for 6 people is obviously insufficient. We stipulated in advance that each person is only allowed to carry a 20-inch suitcase, and then we put down a rear seat and barely stuffed it. luggage.
At around 1:30 in the afternoon, we arrived at the well-known farmhouse in Jinshanling, and it was time to knock on the table: here provides a one-stop service for food, accommodation, and transportation. The boss drives a farm vehicle to provide a pick-up service from the hotel to the entrance of the scenic spot. The fee is 10 yuan per person. Buying tickets through them can be 13 yuan cheaper, which is equivalent to a free pick-up. Although the hotel room is small, the proprietress cooks good dishes. Yes, this is the point. The dishes are a bit surprising. , I especially recommend their sweet and sour pork ribs, who knows who eats it.
The sections inside the east and west five-eye buildings of Jinshanling Great Wall are the repaired parts. Most of the parts outside the two sides have not been repaired and maintain the original style. If you have good physical strength, you can walk to the two sides to see same scenery.
Because we arrived in the afternoon, according to the recommendation of the proprietress, we first went to the West Five Eyes Tower to shoot the sunset, because the sunset time was still early. After we boarded the Great Wall from Shayukou, everyone unanimously decided to go to the east side first. Different from the crowds of people on the Badaling Great Wall, there are few people here, and you can freely shape the shape and take pictures freely without worrying about the sudden intrusion of the crowd in the picture. Of course, people with good physical strength can also go to the west of the Six Eyes Building to appreciate the vicissitudes of the Great Wall's history.
This visit to the Jinshanling Great Wall has corrected a misunderstanding I have always had. I used to think that the battlements of the Great Wall were beacon towers for warning beacons. It turns out that the Great Wall has a special beacon tower. There are 3 beacons in the Jinshanling section, tens of meters away from the Great Wall.
Everyone knows that the Great Wall was built by Qin Shihuang, but most of the Great Wall we see now was rebuilt during the Ming Dynasty. The Jinshanling section of the Great Wall was presided over by the famous general Qi Jiguang when he was the commander-in-chief of Jizhen. The construction of the Great Wall here There are stacks of various shapes. Because we focused on taking pictures, we didn't pay much attention to the explanatory boards, so we didn't know much about the functions of these stacks.
We climbed more than 20 stacked buildings in total, and when we arrived at the West Five Eyes Building, the sunset was infinitely beautiful. The so-called five-eye building means that there are five windows built on the stack. The proprietress told us that this is the best place to shoot the sunset, but according to my observation, it is not ideal to shoot the sunset of the Great Wall here, because the sunset and the Great Wall are not in the same direction. And the distance is far, it is difficult to collect the Great Wall and the sunset in one picture.
We walked for a while to the unrepaired Great Wall outside the Wuyan Building. If you have enough time, it is recommended to walk more of these so-called wild Great Walls, so that you can fully appreciate the vicissitudes of the Great Wall. The tops of the stacks here have almost completely collapsed, and the crenels of the walls have almost collapsed, and the pavement above the walls has been completely occupied by wild thatch.
When shooting the sunset on the Great Wall, a big foreigner girl became a free model for all of us. This foreigner seemed very happy to be used as a model by us and didn't mind everyone's shooting.
After coming down from the Great Wall, it was already dark, so we called the boss, who drove a farm vehicle to the ticket gate and took us back to the hotel, where we ate farm food at the farmhouse at night.
In order to shoot the sunrise the next morning, we set off at 4:30. When we arrived at the East Five-Eye Building, the entire top of the Great Wall was already filled with people. It was very difficult to find a camera position. We managed to get through the crowds and squeezed to the front, only to realize that this was not a place for filming. The best place for sunrise, but the good location is gone, only make do. After the sun came out, I decided to go east again, so I took the tripod and walked towards the Wild Great Wall for a while. I found that the sun had risen, and I missed the best time to shoot the sunrise, but I looked back and saw that it was illuminated by the sun. The Great Wall is still very shocking.
After filming the sunrise on the Great Wall, we returned to the hotel for breakfast. At about 8:00, we set off for Chengde Mountain Resort. Before 10 o'clock, we entered this former royal summer palace.
The Summer Resort was first built in 1703, and it took 89 years to complete after the Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong dynasties of the Qing Dynasty. The Summer Resort is the largest existing ancient imperial palace in China. The entire villa is divided into four parts: the palace area, the lake area, the plain area, and the mountain area. The entire villa is rich in water in the southeast and mountainous in the northwest. , Lingering Garden and known as China's four famous gardens. Because I had heard that the inside was too big, I was dizzy when I ran, so we hired a tour guide for 150 yuan, and later, on the recommendation of the tour guide, we bought a 6-person SJTU ticket for 600 yuan.
After more than two hours of shopping, there are almost no scenic spots that leave an impression. Compared with Xiaojiabiyu in Jiangnan Gardens, the Summer Resort can be said to be a silly big sister. Although many scenic spots in it are designed after famous scenic spots in the country, I only learned from it. It's superficial and doesn't understand the essence. No wonder the business of the Summer Resort has been sluggish these years, and the ticket income is not enough for the repair costs of the park.
After coming out of the Summer Resort, it was already past 12 noon, and my stomach was already growling. I found a top-ranked restaurant on the Internet - our small restaurant (Jinlong Branch), and ordered a total of pickled pork with preserved vegetables, shredded pork with Beijing sauce, old-flavored lump soup, Gongbao chicken drumsticks, old street meatballs and bean paste, There are 8 kinds of Belle's shredded duck, spring pancakes and rock noodle rolls. The dishes are very suitable for everyone's appetite. Everyone's mouth is full of oil. After the checkout, it is only 248 yuan. It is really cheap and affordable. It is highly recommended.
After dinner, we drove to Yudaokou of Saihanba Scenic Area. Around the evening, we arrived at the ticket office of Yudaokou Scenic Area. Here we met a local who scalped tickets. After inquiring, it turned out that it was in the same apartment as Wenjie Family Apartment where we stayed tonight. community, so she drove ahead and led the way, and we successfully found the hotel.
This is an affordable housing project area with a very low occupancy rate. The apartment is a three-bedroom suite with five beds. Two ladies sleep in a big bed, which solves the problem of 6 of us with 5 beds.
After dinner, because we had to get up early the next day to shoot the sunrise, we went to the supermarket to buy some eggs and instant noodles. The eggs had nothing to cook, so we had to cook them in a kettle, and the boiled water smelled like eggs fishy smell. The hotel owner was probably afraid that we would dirty her kitchen, so she locked the kitchen door, causing 6 of us to wash in a toilet, and some of us had to take a shower and do laundry, so we were very nervous. The key to the kitchen door was found in the shoe cabinet at the door, and he was relieved.
After consulting the proprietress, let her list an itinerary for us. At 5 o'clock in the morning, we set off and headed to Liangbingtai dozens of kilometers away according to the itinerary.
The sunrise on the road is so beautiful, it can be said to be amazing, but unfortunately we are still on the road, and everyone regrets that we got up late today. When I hurried to the intersection of Liangbingtai, I found that the road was tightly blocked by large trucks. I got out of the car and walked forward for tens of meters. I found that the cause of the traffic jam was the height limit on the road to Liangbingtai. The pole was artificially lowered to prevent large trucks from passing, so the truck driver got angry and blocked all the roads, even small cars could not go. After failing to communicate with the management staff on duty, we gave up Liangbingtai and went to the source of the Luan River not far away.
This season, the water in the scenic spot at the source of the Luan River has been released, leaving only the empty wooden plank road. We walked around and found it really boring, so we returned to the car and went to the next scenic spot - Qixing Lake.
Qixing Lake is a key tourist attraction of Saihanba National Forest Park, and it is also one of the few places in the park that needs to be checked. There were seven small lakes here, arranged like a dipper in the sky, hence the name of Qixing Lake.
Except for the exposed lake surface, the entire scenic spot is almost covered with dense waist-deep thatch. The wooden plank road is erected on the thatch. Some local people step on the thatch and wade through the mud to fish in the lake area. Qixing Lake has a large area, because it has entered the fire prevention season, except for a small area at the entrance of the scenic spot, the plank roads to the westward birch forest and the north to the strange tree slope have been closed. Le Bin and I climbed over the closed fence and went to I walked around in a small circle and enjoyed the treatment of a special zone tour, but was soon found out by the staff and called out.
After coming out of Qixing Lake, we navigated to the colorful scenic spots. Here is a mountain top, where you can have a bird's-eye view of the entire Saihanba Forest. The reason why it is called colorful is probably because standing here in autumn and looking down, you can see colorful forests. The temperature in autumn this year is high. We visited Saihanba according to the time in previous years. Looking down from the viewing platform, only some of the trees are starting to turn yellow, far from being colorful. Fortunately, the color of the low shrubs on both sides of the road has turned yellow, so it is still very interesting to shoot.
In the next Mulan Qiuki Cultural Park, it was almost a special session for the 6 of us. There is no staff in the huge scenic spot. We pulled out the wooden fence and walked along the small river for a while. The scenery here is good and it is worth visiting. When I returned to the door, I heard that real guns could be shot here, so I spent 60 yuan to shoot two pistols and three rifles. The pistol fired two rounds of 8 rings. None of them smashed the glass bottles, but they should have been hit, but just passed by.
The first time I played a real gun, I was deeply impressed by the powerful recoil and the sound of the explosion. During the handjob, the eggshell jumped directly into the cuff and burned my wrist with small blisters.
The sacred tree is an inconspicuous tree next to the road. It is about hundreds of years old. If it is not covered with colorful khatas, it is really not easy to find. Erlongquan Scenic Area is also unobstructed. We went in and walked around in a hurry, and then went to the mechanical forest farm for lunch.
I originally found one on the Internet, but was lured into the restaurant next door by accident. I ordered her lamb stick bone hot pot. The special thing here is that everyone was given a straw to suck the bone marrow of the lamb. Although the lamb meat It has been adjusted by various seasonings to lose a bit of mutton smell, but the bone marrow is still full of mutton smell, which I don't like very much.
After lunch, we went to the Sun Lake Scenic Area. The autumn colors here have been revealed. We walked around the lake along the plank road, and the scenery was still very good.
There are a few naughty little squirrels kept in front of the store at the entrance of the scenic spot. They keep beating in the cage. It is really not easy to take a clear photo.
The Grand Canyon and Guishan Scenic Area are back to back. We first visited the Grand Canyon Scenic Area. The autumn here is more intense. Not only the leaves are golden, but there are many red leaves. The Grand Canyon is also worthy of the name. Walk from the top of the slope It takes more than ten minutes to walk to the bottom of the slope. It seems that there is a dense canyon at the bottom, but there is actually a hidden river.
Coming out of the Grand Canyon, because it was still early, we slowly climbed to the top of Guishan, ready to enjoy the sunset. It has a wide view and is a good place to shoot the sunset.
Everyone changed their tricks and played games with the setting sun. Looking at my picture, does it feel like holding a pearl in my hand?
Absorbing the regret of getting up late this morning and not capturing the most beautiful sunrise, we went to Taoshan Lake and got up early the next day. We set off at 4:00 o'clock, arrived at the lake early, set up the tripod, and waited The rising sun.
On the surface of the lake in the early morning, there is a layer of faint mist, which adds a touch of immortality to Taoshan Lake. But because it is relatively thin, it is not easy to shoot.
Today's sunrise is not as gorgeous as yesterday's, but photography, in addition to technology, also depends on character. I was unlucky today and didn't capture the gorgeous sunrise, but the panoramic photos taken by idlers on the hill behind us are still very impressive.
After sunrise, the warm sunlight cast a layer of crimson red on the surrounding scenery.
After coming out of Taoshan Lake, we had inquired in advance that the road to Liangbingtai had been cleared, so we went to Shenlong Waterfall Scenic Area.
This is an artificial lake, so named because it looks like a dragon wagging its tail. In addition to the lake, there are grasslands and woods in the scenic area. The lake water glows blue under the sunlight, which looks beautiful, but when you get closer, you find that the lake water is a bit muddy, probably because the surrounding cattle and sheep feces flowed into the lake, polluting the lake water .
The herdsmen by the lake were loading pasture, and I photographed the silhouettes of the laborers.
Liangbingtai, also known as Kangxi Dianjiangtai, is an abrupt giant rock with a long and narrow platform at the top, and the surrounding terrain is flat and open. There is a stone sculpture of Emperor Kangxi on it. It is said that after the victory of the war with Galdan, Emperor Kangxi visited this platform to review the victorious soldiers of the Qing army. Later, it is said that Emperor Qianlong also inspected here when he was hunting in Mulan Paddock. Been to the army a few times. Standing on the top of the platform and looking at all the small mountains, it is indeed a good place to inspect the troops.
Under the stage is a dense pine forest, and in the distance is a yellow deciduous forest, which is somewhat similar to the colorful scenic spots.
On both sides of the road to Liangbingtai, autumn has become strong, and the mountains and plains are golden. We get out of the car from time to time to take pictures and enjoy the rare beauty.
Miyue Lake is named after the filming of the TV series "The Legend of Miyue". The road leading here is the only unhardened road in the scenic spots of our trip to Saihanba.
The lake is not big, and some locals around are fishing. The lake water also gives people a feeling of diarrhea after drinking, and the inside is slightly turbid.
On the grassland on the other side of the lake, there were herdsmen driving their cattle past, and they quickly switched to a telephoto lens to take a few pictures. A field of sunflowers was planted on the right bank slope of the lake, but they bloomed feebly and were obviously deficient in nutrition. In front of the right is a dense birch forest, and in front of it is an open hilly area. The sky above the hillside is filled with white clouds. It is known as an ocean of forests, a paradise of rare birds and animals".
After the trip to Miyue Lake, our trip to Saihanba also came to a successful conclusion. Saihanba was a part of Mulan Paddock in the Qing Dynasty. The Ulan Butong we will go with the group next also belongs to Mulan Paddock. "Saihanba "Han" is Mongolian, meaning "beautiful"; the Manchu name of "Mulan Paddock" is "Mulan Huihan", which is translated into Chinese as "a hunting place surrounded by sentinel deer". "Mulan", which means "whistle deer" in Manchu, is a way for the Qing emperor to encircle. According to the "Man-Han Dictionary", hunters hide in the depths of the forest before dawn, wear deerskin hats, and blow long wooden or birch bark whistles in their mouths, imitating the sound of deer's courtship, so as to lure deer and beasts into their lives. Gathering for food creates a good opportunity for hunters to wait for the opportunity to hunt and kill.
Saihanba has been a famous natural garden with abundant water and grass, dense forests and numerous animals since ancient times. In the Liao and Jin Dynasties of our country, it was called the "Thousand Li Pine Forest" and used to be the hunting place of the emperor. Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty took a fancy to this geomantic treasure land when he was touring outside the Great Wall. He borrowed the ancient emperor's hunting etiquette of "spring search, summer seedling, autumn hunting, winter hunting" in four seasons, and at the same time, in order to improve the combat effectiveness of the Manchu Eight Banners, set up here "Mulan paddock" made "Mulan Qiuyu" as the ancestral system. According to historical records, Mulan Paddock is the royal hunting garden outside the Great Wall. During the 139 years from the 20th year of Kangxi to the 25th year of Jiaqing, the three emperors Kangxi, Qianlong and Jiaqing held Mulan Autumn 105 times.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, due to neglect of management, it was over-cut and the land began to desertify, becoming the source of Beijing's wind and sand. In the 1960s, the state set up the Saihanba Mechanical Forest Farm here and began to plant trees on a large scale. After decades of hard work, it has regained its glory in the past and has become the largest national forest park in northern China.
We settled for lunch at a street north of Yudaokou Anju Community. In the past two days, we ate at different restaurants just to experience different flavors. After a few meals, the overall taste of the dishes here is not bad, which is suitable for us. If you have a southern appetite, friends who like to eat sweets, I recommend you to try the "milk tofu", which is the specialty here.
After lunch, everyone rested until 2:00 p.m. before heading back to Beijing. Considering that our license plate happened to be restricted today, and the accommodation in Beijing is more expensive, we decided to live in Huairou County, which is more than 70 kilometers away from Beijing. There were twists and turns when looking for a hotel. The hotels I searched online were already full, and the alleys were crowded with cars and the roads were narrow. I didn’t want to bother anymore, so I found a nearby hotel with beds and settled down.
The next morning, we rushed back to Beijing, successfully returned the car, and then started to continue the 7-day photography itinerary we reported to the knights. Today is the assembly day, and we immediately took the subway to the North Langyue Qingnianhu store. After checking in, everyone After resting until 11 o'clock, I started to go downstairs to find something to eat.
I was planning to go to Tiananmen Square and the National Museum, but because of the rehearsal for the 70th anniversary celebration, I walked to Chang'an Avenue and saw that all the roads were closed and pedestrians were not allowed to pass, so I had to give up. After dinner in the evening, each of us picked up a hello bicycle and rode to the Bird's Nest and the Water Cube. It was very difficult to find a bicycle. The number of hello bicycles in Beijing is very small. We walked almost 2 kilometers and only got 6 bicycles. After finding the car, Le Bin got separated from us because he couldn't wait to go ahead.
When I came to the Bird's Nest, the night scene here is very beautiful, especially the way it is reflected in the water, it is very emotional to shoot.
We stayed in the square for a while, and lasers started to be fired above the bird's nest. I heard that there is usually a light show here, but I don't know why it was not staged today.
The exterior wall of the Water Cube is constantly changing colorful colors, but I still prefer the blue-green color that is close to the color of water.
On the morning of the 22nd, we officially embarked on the journey of the knight-errants on the dam. The photography team leader this time is Mr. Mo Ke, and the life team leader is Amen. Amen is a person from the dam. A lot of knowledge, and Mo Ke popularized some precautions for photography on the dam, and everyone gained a lot.
It was the first time to follow the photography group of Ranger, and the self-introduction of the group members in the car was good, providing everyone with a chance to get to know each other.
After 5 o'clock in the afternoon, we arrived in Ulan Butong smoothly. We didn't enter the hotel, and went directly to the back mountain of Aobao without stopping. We climbed up the mountain and started shooting. After all, it is a professional photography group, and everyone has relatively complete equipment. Once they reach the top of the mountain, they each find a favorable terrain and start to set up long guns and short cannons. For photography in Bashang, wide-angle lenses are almost useless, and all rely on telephoto lenses. Fortunately, I took the painstaking efforts to bring Tamron’s 150~600 lenses, which can capture scenery that others cannot see.
The dinner was served at Manda Restaurant recommended by You Xia Ke. Customers of You Xia Ke can enjoy a 20% discount. Probably because the number of customers of You Xia Ke is too strong, the place is overcrowded, and I waited almost half an hour to find a seat. I ordered grilled lamb chops and roast beef with tomatoes, etc. On the basis of a 20% discount, it still cost us more than 400 oceans, which was the most expensive meal of our trip.
We set off at 4:30 the next morning, and went to Beigou Mountain to shoot the sunrise. In fact, it was a sunrise scene, but it was meaningless to shoot the real sunrise. The key was the change of light and shadow after sunrise. The vitality brought by all things is the point.
As usual, it was overcrowded, climbed to the top of the mountain, found a foothold, and started shooting with a camera on the rack. Thanks to the advancement of technology, ordinary people can afford photography, which is unimaginable in the film era.
It is a little regretful that there is no fog today, and the sunrise scene is less flexible. Because of the trouble of changing the lens, after the telephoto lens shooting, I took out my mobile phone to take a few panoramas.
After coming down from Beigou, we went to Wucai Mountain again. The autumn colors in Ulan Butong are obviously much stronger than Saihanba. The autumn leaves here are colorful, but because of the bright sunshine and high sun, the shooting effect is not good. very ideal.
Wild Duck Lake, I really saw a lot of wild ducks swimming in it, but because they are too small and the distance is too far, even at 600 focal lengths, they cannot be photographed.
There is a golden birch forest in a ditch. When the shooting was about to end, I found a large flock of sheep passing by on the opposite hillside, so I hurried up to take a few photos.
At around 9:00 am, we returned to the hotel for breakfast, and then set off again around 3:00 pm to film the scenes of galloping horses and horses stepping on water.
The two scenes in the afternoon require money to hire herdsmen to drive horses and whips. It is more troublesome for individuals to participate, so this is one of the reasons why we reported to the Ranger Photography Group. Of course, the off-road routes in the following trip are also ours. One of the reasons for giving up self-driving.
When I came to the photography site, hundreds of photographers lined up. Because the lens was too long, I found a separate small bag in the distance to set up the camera and waited.
Don’t worry about not being able to shoot, because the herdsmen will repeatedly ride their horses and run several times. They have done this kind of scene shooting for countless times. It can be said that they are familiar with the road and can satisfy most photographers.
Horses running through the dust raised is one of the guarantee factors for the shooting effect, and the backlit camera position on the side is also the guarantee for the brilliant photos.
The sunlight pierced through the trees, and the light was clearly outlined by the raised dust.
Next, I went to the horse stepping water flower shooting site. Because I was greedy for the scenery on the road, when I arrived at the lake, it was already hard to find a seat. I finally squeezed a seat and stood down, and I had to endure other people's eyes, like this The location is the same as he gave me.
Because the location was not ideal, the horse stepped on the water and did not take a photo that I was very satisfied with. At the end, I picked up the camera, walked to a place far away from the crowd, and set up a telephoto shot. , the effect is not ideal, but it is still very good to see the image under the backlight on the way back with the camera.
At 9 o'clock in the evening, Mr. Mo Ke gave us an extra lesson and went to Obo to take pictures of the starry sky. I don't know why, but the Milky Way I took was not as shocking as the pictures on the Internet, but the Milky Way can still be seen.
The departure time to go to Tufenggou to shoot the sunrise was earlier, starting on time at 4 o'clock in the morning. Toufenggou had to go through a cross-country route, and the mobile phone had no signal.
Dufenggou is a place where movies are produced, and many award-winning blockbusters were shot here. Again, a simple sunrise is nothing to beat. The small river in the ditch before and after sunrise and the undulating hillsides on both sides of the bank are the focus of shooting.
I don’t know why today, although there are many photography groups, but no one hired herders to drive the sheep out, so no matter how beautiful the scenery is, the lack of animal embellishments and some vitality, I have to say that this is the biggest regret of this trip.
Next, in Nanjing's shooting, although there were flocks of cattle and sheep, but because Nanjing did not have the special background and light and shadow effects of the ventilation ditch, the shooting effect was greatly reduced.
After filming in Nanjing, we returned to the hotel to rest. We set off at 2:30 pm and went to Donggou for shooting. Halfway through the walk, the head car stopped suddenly, saying that the road ahead was blocked by herdsmen and it was impassable, so we turned temporarily. Field, go to the birch forest to shoot grassland portraits.
The models hired by You Xia Ke sculpt various shapes in the birch forest for everyone to take pictures. Although the models are not professional enough, they are better than nothing.
Although the knight-errants here hired herdsmen to drive a large flock of sheep over, but because of the terrain, the flock couldn't spread out, and they were densely packed together, which was not easy to produce results.
But Doudoujia found someone lighting a cigarette in the distance, and ran over to take a look. It turned out that other photography groups were shooting the scene of the deer garden. In order to enhance the effect, fireworks were specially lit. Unfortunately, I missed the shooting.
The shooting of the sunset camel shadow also had to go through a cross-country route, and the car finally took us all the way to the top of the mountain. I originally found a good shooting position, because many people didn’t have telephoto lenses, so they could only keep getting closer to shoot, which ruined the best shooting distance. In order not to take pictures of people’s heads, I had to keep moving forward and gradually lost It is a pity to take the original mid-range and long-range photos of camels into close-up photos at the best distance.
After the camels were taken away, when the sun went down, the sky began to become extremely gorgeous. If you can take a sunset camel shadow at this time, it should be a very shocking photo.
When the team leader saw such a beautiful sunset, he was not in a hurry to urge everyone to leave. We had a good time shooting before returning to Yiren Villa.
For the complete itinerary of the last day, we went to Aobaotu to shoot the sunrise in the morning, climbed up the hillside, and there was a lake called Jiangjun Paozi in front of us. Because the distance is too far, it is not the focus of shooting. The focus is on the thin film on the ground before and after sunrise. A layer of water vapor, clearly outlining the rays of the sunrise, is very beautiful.
It’s better to use a telephoto lens. You can see a group of horses passing by from a distance, raising dust all the way.
The shooting of the eight horses specially arranged by You Xia Ke is the shooting of eight horses running under the backlight. Because there are thousands of galloping horses in the front, this has become a tasteless project.
After shooting the picture of eight steeds, we walked forward for a while and started to shoot the galloping horses under the smooth light. Unlike the tens of thousands of horses galloping the day before yesterday, today's shooting is in front light. Although the effect is not as good as that in backlight, it also provides different shooting effects.
As we patted and patted, a group of camels also ran over and successfully grabbed everyone's shots.
In the afternoon we set off to Panlong Canyon, where the knight-errants took a group photo of our trip, and the six of us also took a good group photo with the aerial camera of the team leader Amen. As the trip was nearing the end, everyone's enthusiasm for taking group photos suddenly increased, and they took several photos in one breath.
When I was about to get in the car, the horses under the backlight also attracted me to keep pressing the shutter.
Shooting the sunset at the back of the Princess Lake is the last highlight of this itinerary.
The light and shadow changes before and after sunset are really wonderful, and the photos are full of sunshine. It's a pity that because I have been taking photos against the sun, I didn't expect the photos of the sun to be so beautiful. When I realized it, the sun had already set and the light was gone. I hurriedly took a few photos of the sun after the sun set to make up for the regret. Here I borrow a photo taken by an idler to show you the beautiful scenery when the sun shines.
In the evening, Ranger invited everyone to have a dinner, and served roasted whole lamb, and we also had a few bottles of beer to add to the fun.
On the morning of the sixth day, the departure time was later than usual, and we departed for Princess Lake at 5:30. When we arrived at Princess Lake, the sun had already risen, and the lakeside was full of photographers.
The origin of the place name "Princess Lake" is said to be that Emperor Kangxi's favorite third princess, Lan Qigege, was forced to marry Galdan and passed through the grasslands of Inner Mongolia. She was so sad that she wept and shed tears into a lake. The lake in Hexigten Banner is called Princess Lake.
The focus here is on beautiful reflections. The morning sun added another layer of purple to the already golden trees.
After the trip to Princess Lake, our Ulan Butong trip is over. Here is a small table for everyone. Because of the inconvenient transportation in some scenic spots and the lack of mobile phone signal in Ulan Butong, and many shooting scenes need to hire models , so it is not recommended that you drive there by yourself. If you want to take classic photos, it is recommended that you sign up for a special photography group. Stay at the Hongshan Army Racecourse, where there are many hotels, and it is very convenient to eat and live. As for places to eat, I recommend Narimanda and Chollima Manor. We ate two meals at these two respectively. They were both delicious and crowded with customers. From the perspective of cost performance, we recommend Chollima Manor. The proprietress is also very enthusiastic. Bashang photography, basically leave early and return late, rest at the hotel at noon to catch up on sleep, if breakfast is late, a meal at noon is also optional.
After leaving Princess Lake at 8:00 in the morning, due to road reconstruction, the road was seriously blocked, and we arrived at Wuling Mountain in the evening. It was too late to put down the luggage, and directly transferred to the scenic spot traffic car to the top of the mountain to shoot the sunset of Wuling Mountain.
Wuling Mountain is the second highest peak in the Yanshan Mountains, with an altitude of more than 2,100 meters. The car took us all the way up the winding road and arrived at the weather station on the top of the mountain. The chance of seeing the sea of clouds here is very high, and it is also famous for its shooting of the sea of clouds, but we did not see the sea of clouds when we came here today, and we have just watched the shocking sunset in Ulan Butong, so we don’t have much expectation for the sunset here. After lowering and taking a few shots, we waited to go down the mountain.
The accommodation is Fuling Express Hotel halfway up the mountain. There is almost no artificial light here, and it is a good place to take pictures of the starry sky, so I woke up early in the morning and went to the open space to take a few photos of the galaxy.
Depart on time at 5:00 in the morning and go to the top of the mountain to shoot the sunrise of Wuling Mountain.
Today, there is a faint layer of mist floating among the layers of mountains, and the mountains and plains are covered with colorful autumn trees, so the shooting is very effective.
When we returned to Beijing, it was already past 1:00 pm. The car dropped us off at Dongzhimen. We found a restaurant called "Dongwai Xiaoguan". Because it was a casual meal, we extravagantly ordered 8 dishes. I ordered a bottle of Yanjing Beer, and the bill was only 387 yuan. It is really a conscience hotel for the people of the capital.
After the meal, Doudouxin, Xianren, and Lanshan continued to travel to Tianjin, and the rest of us embarked on the high-speed train back to Nanjing. We said goodbye to each other and made an appointment to start a new journey again in the future.
