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  • Jun 7, 2012 at 3:55 pm #5962
    Avatar photoMark Sides
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    I have been fly fishing with the same bunch of guys for over 25 years now and we are working on full filling our bucket list destinations.
    A guide and friend who works out of Bozeman started his own deal down in Chile and really got after us to make the trip….here are a few pictures I took using a Hassleblad X-Pan on Eastman Kodak film. 😉

    Jun 7, 2012 at 4:06 pm #52568
    Avatar photoMark Sides
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    We were based out of a beautiful little town called Coyahique, a good 1,000 miles south of Santiago.

    Jun 7, 2012 at 4:10 pm #52569
    Avatar photoMark Sides
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    We were told the fishing there was like it used to be in the American west a hundred years ago….we were landing trout like the one below all day long out of the rivers, the lakes and the ditch fishing were quite different.

    Jun 7, 2012 at 4:12 pm #52570
    Avatar photoMark Sides
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    From the Chilean gauchos to the primordial streams……..

    Jun 7, 2012 at 4:13 pm #52571
    Avatar photoMark Sides
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    Doubles were very common….if you ever get the chance, go.

    Jun 8, 2012 at 12:42 am #52572
    Neal Osborn
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    I love the creative framing and crops in your photos Mark!

    Jun 8, 2012 at 1:04 am #52573
    Jason DeBacker
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    Cool photos!

    Jun 8, 2012 at 2:03 pm #52574
    Avatar photoMark Sides
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    I love the creative framing and crops in your photos Mark!

    Thanks for the kind words guys, much appreciated.
    Neal, most of the framing is in camera as the the X-Pan is a true panoramic format film camera using 35mm stock.
    I took a some liberties with cropping on a few shots to “tighten” them up but I frame using the range finder exposing 24mm x 65mm (double width) negative to shoot in a true panoramic format. No zoom lenses for this camera either, only interchangable primes.

    Jun 11, 2012 at 3:53 pm #52575
    Zach Matthews
    The Itinerant Angler

    Gorgeous country.

    Jun 11, 2012 at 4:03 pm #52576
    Grant Wright
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    Awesome trip report….I’d love to get down there someday.

    Jun 11, 2012 at 7:23 pm #52577
    Avatar photoPeter E.
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    agreed, the only problem with me going there would be getting me to leave.

    Jun 13, 2012 at 3:46 am #52578
    scott thomas
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    Great shots! I had an Xpan and sold it a few years back to buy some digital gear. I’m still regretting selling it every time I see something like this! Really unique camera.

    Jun 14, 2012 at 1:17 am #52579
    Avatar photoMark Sides
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    Thanks again for the compliments fellas.

    Zach, the “walls” you make note of are actually what the locals refer to as fire trash. Over many many years there have been many “land clearing” types of monster fires and what you see is the old old leftovers. The ranchers re-arrange the fire trash into make shift corrals for their goats, alpaca or horses.

    I have cropped and enlarged another one of my pics that helps to display what I’m talking about…if you look closely you can see man made structure integrated into their rearrangement of the burnout residue, gates, wire etc to help form a corral.
    Pretty innovative really.

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