Digital Camera Fiend - A Camera Review

Originally uploaded by Po Lo at flickr.com

Taken with a Canon EOS D20 digital camera.

Part of the beauty of being a photographer is finding yourself in highly unusual situations and being able to record the experience to share with others. You have to do more than spot and frame your subject….if you can smell, touch, feel, or even taste your subject, you will convey that knowledge to your viewers.

The photographer who snapped this brilliant shot of a popular Afghani sport called Buzkashi nearly got trampled he was so close to the action. But his efforts paid off and he lived to share his bizarre experience.

For those who are wondering, Buzkashi (Buz=goat, kashi=taking out) is similar to polo except riders pick up and hurl a headless goat or calf carcass over goal posts. Traditional inhabitants of Central Asia spent a great deal of time on horseback, so the game developed to showcase their riding skills.