travel starts with photography

At the end of July, Nobel's documentary about life in Sudan was finally finished.

Because Chen Xing and the others wanted to see the African savannah, Professor Nobel didn’t buy them a plane ticket. He packed up his things and said, “Be careful when traveling there, listen to the guide and driver, they are very experienced, don’t Too close to the animals."

With his Leica camera hanging on his chest, Leifbold nodded confidently and said, "Don't worry, professor."

They were interns in this crew. Every day they either helped with things or resisted the camera. They almost forgot that they were a freelance photographer. Now holding a Leica, Lefebold felt his soul came back.

Chen Xing and the others also went to say goodbye to their colleagues.

Besides them, the sound engineer also wanted to go to the prairie, but his route was different from that of Chen Xing and the others.

They went to shoot the video, so they went to Tanzania.The sound engineer wanted to go to Kenya, which is relatively safe in the interior of Africa. If you drive around the city, you will definitely see soldiers patrolling with guns within 5 minutes.

At ten o'clock in the morning, Chen Xing and the others got on the plane to Tanzania.

Ford said:

"We definitely don't understand the official language of Tanzania, but because they have been colonized by the British, English is considered their second language. Under normal circumstances, we can still communicate with them in English."

Annie, the director of photography invited by them, yawned and put on the blindfold.

"Call me soon."

He has never been to Africa before, but he still has some experience in shooting wild animals, so he is not worried about any surprises in this shooting.

As for safety.

Chen Xing has already asked the crew guide for the contact information of a Tanzanian guide, and also decided to hire five professional security personnel and two vehicles to guarantee their travel and filming process in the past few days.

The plane was not full.

Sudan is still in the process of developing the country. Only a few people have the idea of ​​traveling, and most of them are on official business trips.

After squinting his eyes for a while, Chen Xing felt that the plane began to descend.

Chen Xing opened the baffle of the porthole, the clouds outside were thin, the grass below was clearly visible, and there was a huge mountain in the distance.

"What a tall mountain!" Chen Xing said.

This mountain seems to be piled up directly on the flat ground, which is very abrupt in the environment of the prairie.

Annie couldn't sleep either, so he glanced out the window and said, "This should be Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa. Chen, I heard you have done mountaineering before?"

"Well, the snow mountain for beginners is very simple."

"It is also possible to climb here, and many people come here every year."

Chen Xing looked at his figure, and he didn't feel like a person who exercised a lot.

He smiled and said:
"Look at what I do? Our TV station has filmed this area, I just came into contact with it, and I also know a few very powerful professional mountaineers, and they have been here before."

"Oh, that's it." Chen Xing nodded, and wanted to have an in-depth chat with him on this topic, but he was going to the airport soon.

Excited, Leftbold unbuckled his seat belt and stood up, asking, "Hey, Chen, what are we going to do first, do we want to take a day off?"

Before Chen Xing could speak, Ford shouted, "The security team is very expensive!"

"Haha, indeed, the guide and the security team are charged by the day, we can take pictures first." Chen Xing said.

As soon as the plane landed, they saw a person holding a white sign saying 'Chen Xing' in Chinese.Beside him were a few black men wearing field uniforms and holding AKs, all tall and tall.

It feels very safe at first glance.

Chen Xing and the others were Asians on the flight they were on, and the guide quickly confirmed his boss.

Chen Xing shook hands with him and said, "Hello, I am Chen Xing, just call me Chen."

"OK.OK, you can call me Abu."

Abu is a 30-year-old black man with a bright smile.

"Let me introduce these great guys. This handsome guy is called Boca Moxio. Even though he is only 25 years old, he has been in the industry for almost ten years. His driving skills are also very good. He is the captain of this team."

Chen Xing also shook hands with him.

The hand holding the gun was covered with calluses, but it also gave Chen Xing a lot of sense of security.

Sure enough, I still have to come to Africa less often, and I don’t feel that relaxed travel feeling in my heart anymore.

I will start working today, but the first day is not to turn on the camera to shoot directly, but to step on various spots.Since their small crew is too poor to afford a camouflage camera, any close-up shots can only be shot with a telephoto lens.

This has to be photographed.

For their safety, it is necessary to find a few suitable and safe shooting spots.

The two cars are quite intimidating.

The pickup truck is modified. There are anti-collision bars in the front and barbed wire in front of the windows. The rear compartment of the pickup truck is directly surrounded by steel bars. Even if an elephant comes by without opening the latch, there is no way to do anything to the compartment.

"However, elephants should not be provoked." Abu said, "After all, the safety of the car does not mean that our car is also safe. An adult elephant can easily overturn our car and make us incapacitated."

"Don't worry, we won't get too close to these animals," Chen Xing said.

I found a restaurant in the urban area for dinner, and the two cars started in the afternoon, raising smoke and dust from the road and driving towards the depths of the grassland.

On the road, Chen Xing saw many similar cars.

Whether it is Kenya or Tanzania, there are a large number of tourists during this period, but there are very few people like them who have specially hired a security team. Most of the tourists are local tour groups.

When they arrived at this grassland, everyone had to listen to Abu's command.

He also started to make money as a guide when he was a teenager. He likes to explore new things and communicate with people.At the same time, he also has a deep understanding of the animals on the prairie. He followed his father to play in nearby forests and grasslands since he was a child.

This experience naturally made him one of the best local guides.

Seeing that Chen Xing was in deep thought, Ford asked, "How is it? Is there a clearer copy?"

"The picture hasn't been shot yet, what copywriting do you want?" Chen Xing said rather speechlessly, but the environment here is really beautiful, and after the documentary is shot, he will definitely use a lot of pen and ink to introduce these scenery.

The grassland in July is full of green grass, there are white birds flying around in the sky, and there is a herd of zebras in the distance.

This group of zebras was the first group of wild animals they saw after they left the city. Many vehicles were parked nearby, allowing tourists sitting in iron boxes behind them to come out to take pictures, and everyone had a camera, which was much faster than people with mobile phones. need more.

"Stop here?" asked Bocamosio.

"No, keep going," Abu said.

He knew that these bosses were here to make a documentary, so the route he planned was different from that of ordinary tourists. In addition, there were five security guards with guns. They could go to some better viewing angles, but it was a little dangerous Area.

On the way, he was also introducing the geographical environment of the grassland to Chen Xing.

An hour later, Chen Xing saw a huge rocky mountain.

This rocky mountain is as abrupt as they saw Mount Kilimanjaro from the plane. Why is there such a huge boulder on the plain?It doesn't look like a natural formation at all, as if someone used a pair of big hands to insert these slender boulders into this land.

Chen Xing has better eyesight and can still see the baboon squatting on the rock.

Baboons and monkeys are very different in that they have thick heads with protruding lips, raised browbones and small ears whereas monkeys are smaller in size with rounded heads, flat lips, smooth browbones and large ears, obviously monkeys Better looking than baboons.

But baboons belong to the suborder of the apes, and monkeys belong to the suborder of the apes. Generally speaking, the apes are the kind that are closer to humans.

Abu said: "The baboons on the grassland may be small in size, but they are still very powerful. Sometimes they are a little more dangerous than lions. At least lions will not come to trouble us for no reason. These stupid baboons will, even if we can easily Run them over."

This route is relatively remote, with fewer people coming and going, but because of this, there are more animals.

They were about to leave from here when Chen Xing suddenly saw two clothed people in the middle of the stone mountain.

Chen Xing was afraid that he might be wrong, so he picked up the binoculars to look again.

It was indeed two people, a male and a female white, about 20 to 30 years old, who were fighting fiercely with some baboons who came to harass them.The good news is that they have safety ropes for unarmed climbing, and they cannot fall easily.

The bad news is that baboons are plentiful and growing.

Chen Xing handed the camera to Abu and said, "There are two people up there, can we help?"

"Let me see……"

Abu didn't see anyone before, and now he held up his binoculars and searched for a long time before he found that there were indeed two people holding branches and confronting the baboon. alright."

As long as the car can be driven, the baboons are not too much of a threat to the people in the car.

Bokamoxiao took the walkie-talkie and talked to the team members behind, and then they left the road and drove towards the stone mountain in the desert.

The plants on the ground are lush, but the stone hills are bare, without any soil.

But even so, some weeds and trees grew on the mountain, and I don't know where they absorbed the nutrients.

The two people were overjoyed when they saw a car approaching, and they became more energetic in waving the branches.

Becky wept with joy and said to her husband, "Henry, someone is here to help us."

"I saw it, hey! friend!!"

They are almost desperate.

When I came here in the morning, I saw only some animals walking on land. There were only a very small number of baboons on this cliff, but who knew that during the day, there would be more and more baboons, and then the number increased. They have the courage to come and make trouble.

They've already sent two baboons off a cliff with a branch.

But this behavior undoubtedly irritated them even more, and now several baboons grinned at them.

The car stopped at the bottom of the mountain.

Chen Xing blocked the sun with his hand on his forehead, and looked up. This rocky mountain is estimated to be about 100 meters high, and the height of a twenty-story building. The layers of rocks are not very fragile. Order a lot.

A miracle of nature.

It's also an excellent spot for freehand rock climbing.

In the snow mountain training camp, the teacher also taught some common rock climbing skills, and a lot of equipment distributed also included the ones used by the above two people.

Bocamoxiao said to Chen Xing and the others: "Boss, you just stay in the car, we are going to save people."

They can't climb up to save people, but they have guns, and they have legal hunting certificates in Tanzania, and it is not illegal to shoot animals.So they can get closer and use guns to scare these stupid baboons, or just shoot them in an emergency.

Of course, Chen Xing and the others wouldn't get out of the car, but they also started taking pictures with their cameras.

A group of professional fighters, with serious expressions and loaded guns, even a group of black Africans, Chen Xing still thinks they are very handsome.

It's not the people who are handsome, but the atmosphere and the guns in their hands.

The two white climbers are also worth taking pictures. Not everyone can encounter this kind of scene in the movie. After adjusting the parameters of the camera, Chen Xing pressed the shutter button continuously at the people above. .

Ford and Leftbold were no different.

In the car behind them, Annie also set up the tripod, put the video camera on it and started working... This picture is very meaningful, and no one wants to miss it.

One of the young team members yelled something in a language that Chen Xing and the others could not understand, and then fired several shots into the sky.

The baboons startled.

Africans like to call this creature a stupid baboon, because they think this animal is stupid.

But in reality, they were comparing baboons to humans.

Among animals, primates are very smart. When they saw these two human beings approaching, they knew that they could no longer worry about the two companions who fell and fell to their deaths. revenge.

The baboon king yelled.

The baboons surrounding the two men retreated quickly and quickly climbed to the top of the mountain.

Becky and Henry exhaled the turbid air that had been hidden in their hearts for several hours, and slowly climbed down tremblingly.

Their arms were sore and swollen, and they lost any strength as soon as they landed. It was still two young men who carried them to the front of the car.There are two pedals at the back of the pickup, which are just right for people to sit and rest.

Now that everyone is back, Chen Xing also jumped out of the car and said, "Hello."

"Hello, thank you."

Henry wanted to raise his hand, but he couldn't do it at all. He couldn't feel his hand now: "Sorry, we worked hard on it for several hours, and now we really don't have any strength at all."

"It's okay. My name is Chen Xing. You can call me Chen. Are you British?"

Their Cockney accents are evident.

"Well, thank you, Chen, my name is Henry, and this is my wife Beiji. We have been traveling here for many days, and today we decided to climb this rocky mountain. We wanted to go to the mountain to shoot videos, but I didn't expect there to be So many monkeys."

"Take a video?"

"Yeah, we have our own channel on Youtube. We like extreme sports very much and have many fans."