128 Friday Oct 8

Friday Oct 8 Day 128

This morning was a great success. I was able to get good moving pictures of the chukkar. The surface of the road has been paved with cement. Because of the amount of rain during the monsoon, rebar is pressed into the cement leaving a channel for the water. Rebar is iron bars used in construction and are about 1/2 inch thick. The resulting channels are spaced about 6 inches apart. Needless to say a vehicle vibrates when going over these openings in the surface. On a video tape it is a wonderful “wash board” effect. Trying to get smooth pictures is about impossible. I adjusted my glidecam equipment to fit inside the front of the van and was able to get fairly smoothly flowing pictures. The road, though paved, is far from level. The cement was just put over the uneven stone and dirt road so the car bounces around quite a bit. The Glidecam removes many of these irregularities and I end up with decent pictures. We are going to try for some final pictures of the cement covered roads at the top of the hill tomorrow afternoon.