Photos from Ushuaia, Argentina

Feadin · Post by **Feadin** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:42 pm

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to share some photos from my last trip to Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.
I really had a great time walking through woods, climbing snow covered mountains and watching the sea from beautiful grassy hills. I also had the chance to spot some wildlife, mostly foxes, rabbits and a lot of birds like eagles, seagulls and condors.
It's an amazing place, a bit cold and windy but amazing nonetheless...

Ok, here's the link.

Enjoy!

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:59 pm

Some great shots there.

On the first pass through the gallery, about a dozen jump off the screen and grab ye by the throat.

The technical information is also a great help to us wannabes...

Thanks for sharing.

Slan,
D.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:26 pm

Great looking place. I enjoyed the dog shots quite a bit, but for some reason the two I enlarged were the V of birds just over the water, and the slushy street, lined with cars, with the mountain in the background.

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:13 pm

Your photos are wonderful. Some are works of art!

Of course I'm partial to the dogs and horses, but really, they are all impressive.

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:40 pm

Beauty!

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 10:07 pm

Those photos were just amazing---I can't say I had any favorites but I was amazed at how you could take such pictures of birds. I'm sure glad you posted them. That terrain seems very different to me. I knew roughly where it was (very roughly

) but then I got confused about where Patagonia (which I guess is a region shared by Chile and Argentina, not a governmental name--although the map doesn't make it look shared

) was. And I wasn't sure how close it was to Antarctica---answer: very close. Anyway, I found some maps, not necessarily the greatest, that may help the geographically challenged people like me. I would really like to go to that part of the world. It seems almost a little frightening for some reason, but also just indescribably beautiful.

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:33 am

Remarkable! Brilliant photographs!

But I had to stop halfway through to go and put on an overcoat.

Feadin · Post by **Feadin** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 7:15 am

I'm glad you all liked the photos, thanks for the comments

Cynth, the maps are fine, that's exactly the place. It's quite close to the Antarctica, and many times you can even see the reflected lights of the ice and snow far away on the sky when looking at south.
Patagonia is actually a region, is the southest part of SouthAmerica... maybe this link to wikipedia will be more helpful. Ushuaia is part of Patagonia, but this is the only place with so much variety of terrain, like mountains, plains, hills, woods, tundra and sea. You can even watch the sea from the top of many mountains. There're also many rivers and (some really big) lakes.

Roger O'Keeffe · Post by **Roger O'Keeffe** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 4:49 pm

Lovely stuff. BTW, how is "Ushuaia" pronounced? It's used as the name of a rather attractive French TV programme which deals with exotic travel and environmental issues.

Feadin · Post by **Feadin** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 7:33 pm

Well since my primary language is spanish it's kind of difficult for me to write the pronunciation in english, but I'll try... It's something like oo-soo-ah-iah
Almost all sounds are vocal sounds, the only consonant sound is the S.

Roger O'Keeffe · Post by **Roger O'Keeffe** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 4:49 pm

Thanks. So the S and the H are separate sounds (or a sound and a silence?) rather than a single sound SH as in English?

Feadin · Post by **Feadin** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 7:49 pm

Right, the S sounds alone and the H doesn't sound at all.