We traveled 2 straight days to visit the Tsaatan nomad village in East Taiga, Mongolia. It was really great to see and experience how they live up in the mountains in such extreme weather conditions. This man is part of the few families that live there. He was very happy for me to take a picture of him standing outside his house.

Nikon D7100 with 18-200mm | ISO 2000 | Exposure 1/5000 @ f5.6 | Focal length 18mm
Reindeer People, by Shirren Lim

Award Winner: Photo of the Day | May 04
Award Score: 69 (Value 13, Clarity 13, Composition 18, Style 12, Skill 13)
Photo of the Day Award Category: Black & White Photography
Photograph Location: Mongolia

Photographer: Shirren Lim (Jakarta, Indonesia) Registered
Born in Penang Island, Malaysia, in 1970, Shirren would find herself moving cities over the course of her life. She is now based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Shirren took up photography in 2009, as she thought it would be an interesting habit, later she discovered it as her true passion. Shirren loves portraitures best. To her, the expressions people wear are so beautiful, so telling, so uncovered in their sincerity. With her photo-taking, she tries and does justice to capture humanity in its many forms. Shirren’s work has been described as intense and earthy with her simple composition cutting to the heart of the subject matter. As a child, she had flipped through many of her father’s National Geographic magazines, but it was Steve McCurry’s 1984 “Afghan Girl” that she recall two decades later. That is what she wants to do with her life. She believes, someday, she can able to capture that one moment that could change the world. Her work has appeared in several web and printed magazines.

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