08/07/2017
Drang-Drung is the second largest glacier (after Siachen) in the Karakoram range, located at 4870m altitude in Kargil-Zanskar road in Zanskar Valley.
I happen to pay visit to Zanskar Valley during month of June 2017 for starry nights to capture the glacier with milkyway background. After reaching the glacier on 5th day morning our camping, it was scary for us to go near the valley to setup camera for photographing as wind blowing away as it can lift the people up.. but it was better in the night time. Had an opportunity to click some amazing images.
The best part was there were no clouds much during our stay unlike 2 of 5 days of different camping at Zanskar valley washed out for us! The time I have captured the images was at around 3'O clock in the night where you would get to capture the milkyway in vertical position and it was freezing cold with wind makes you little difficult to breath and work on making the images, but totally worth it!!! :)
I happened to meet a fellow participant and photographer from Newzealand, David, who explained me a lot about the culture, history, 'haka', 'mauri' during our dining time told me that Newzealand also have astonishing Glaciers and Volcanes but very difficult to reach to the vantage points to make an image of the same. No wonder we have been blessed and also attract lot of tourists.
P.S.: I have opened my shutter for 30" and due to this you would be noticing some trailing in stars and which makes it looks like little blurry. Recommended would be 20" but most important factor is effective focal length on your lens.
