| Photo Information |
| Copyright: Sunny Petit (sunny_petit) (11) |
| Genre: Places |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2002-01-01 |
| Categories: Festivals |
| Exposure: f/2.8, 1/8 seconds |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2006-10-24 12:05 |
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| Points: 0 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
| Taken on New Years Day at -20 celsius, my camera would click off as the batteries froze in about 5 seconds from leaving my coat(s). The Ice Lantern festival presents intricate icy sculptures each year from January 5-February 5 and has included ice replicas of the Pyramids, the Eiffel Tower, and St Paul's Cathedral. The last major town before you reach sub-Siberian wilderness, Harbin is beautiful and freezing. |
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Harbin is gorgeous in winter. I was there in the winter of 2004 shooting in the same conditions. I would take the battery holder out of camera and stick it in my inside coat pocket. It was crazy cold. Finally my camera died up near the Russian border. I shot frame number 16 and it automatically rewound never to budge again. In the spring I sent it off to a Canon repair shop in Beijing and they fixed it. They said that a circuit on a circuit board had separated from extreme changes in temperature. Now, the camera works as good as new.