Continuing the post about modern nomads — the Nenets. Here is a chum — this is how a home looks like, which is always with you. Wherever the nomad goes, the chum can be easily and quickly disassembled, loaded onto sledges, transported and put in a new place.
It has a simple structure: several long strong poles, placed vertically, in the center between them a pipe from a small metal stove is visible, and reindeer skins sewn into a single canvas are wrapped over the poles. Actually, the structure of the chums has not changed for several hundred or thousand years, all the improvements are a metal stove with a pipe instead of a hearth in the same place, and on top of reindeer skins now many Nenets are wrapping another layer of dense fabric — so that it is more convenient to shake off the snow that has fallen from the smooth surface, and so that if it melts, it will wet the deer fur less.
It is winter now, and the Nenets settle in one place, which is not even the same every year. While the winter lasts and the reindeer graze in the mountains, people spend the winter below, in the valleys. This winter camp was shot from a drone. There are only two groups of several chums here: the Nenets do not settle in large companies together. It may take several hours or a couple of days to get to the next nearest camp. There are many homemade sleds around, on which everything is transported both in winter and in summer. Food, clothing, equipment and household utensils. And people also ride in them, except now more often not reindeer, but snowmobiles are harnessed to sleds: it's faster and easier. But the farther the camp is from the populated areas, the more often deer are still used in everyday life: after all, they have to travel too far for gasoline, there are no gas stations in the snow-covered tundra.
Spring will come, the earth will thaw, young greenery and lichens will appear from under the snow — and modern nomads will set off on their many months of wandering along the tundra with herds of deer, and, as in the old days, they will fold their camp every few days and transport their chums along with all their property to a new one temporary camp. It's good for them when their home is always with them.
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OLYMPUS E-M1 Mark II
Exposure time: 40 sec
Aperture: F 8
Sensitivity: ISO 400
Focal length: 7.5 mm
35 mm equivalent: 15 mm
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I love that long exposes shot. Whats the temperature there in winter?
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About temperature in winter ... it all depends on the specific place, month and weather luck. There is a long winter there - most of the region is located beyond the Arctic Circle, On average, in the coldest months of the winter, it can be up to -30 or -40 degrees Celsius (if not go to the very north of the region — on the coast of the Yamal Peninsula). But -5 / -10 degrees Celsius during the day also happens in winter (and March or even April may be still winter there), so in general, it is worth focusing on the time of the visit :)
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It's pretty cozy inside. In a snowstorm you will not want to go outside at all :)