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For those that have been following this blog, this is the conclusion to a photo series from the Great Himalayan Mountain Range. The photos document a journey by car, foot, boat, plane and elephant from Tibet to Nepal. While I was on this voyage I had a lot of time in the car. Throughout the time, I was shooting with a Canon 5D Mark II and a Canon 14mm f/2.8 L USM from the driver’s side, back seat of whatever vehicle I was in. In Tibet, this was on the left hand side, in Nepal — on the right. On motorcycles, planes and elaphants — well, I’m just shooting on the side of the vehicle in the frame. When placed altogether the frames make a quasi-stop-motion animation that shows the three week voyage in 1 minute and 45 seconds.

At the start of the video, there are some slower frames of people and places that represent some of my favorite images from the trip. For the final edited down portfolios from each country, visit my Web site to see my favorite 32 images from each.

• See Tibet images here.
• See Nepal images here.

The frames go by fairly quickly but for readers of this blog, you’ll notice each blog post from this series is represented within the short video. Tibetan Cloudscapes, the vibrant blue of the Himalayan sky, trash problems in Kathmandu, or the Terei of southern Nepal — the video above compresses 20 blog posts, 60 GB of photos and weeks of riding in a car into a format you can take part in from your home, work or phone. If it goes by too fast, I’ve put some of my favorite frames in a slideshow below.

If you want to explore any parts of this trip further, the links below the slideshow can help you navigate this mammoth of a road trip.

What’s next, you ask? The blog will travel back to China briefly before heading off to the Philippines in a few weeks.

Cheers,

Jonah

Road Trip on the Himalayan Shelf: If you’re just joining now, here’s what you’ve missed:

1. Road trip on the Himalayan Shelf
2. Lhasa: City of Sunlight, City in the Sky
3. In Tibet, People’s Liberation Army (mostly) out of site, but not out of mind
4. Attn: Crayola — a new color for you — Tibetan Blue
5. Tibetan Cloudscapes
6. Tibetan Prayer Flags Littering Roof of the World
7. Should you pay for photos? The ethics of travel photography
8. 29 Minutes and 15 Seconds on Mount Everest
9. Desertification stretching from Inner Mongolia to Tibet
10. ‘The journey not the arrival matters’
11. Namaste and welcome to Nepal
12. Kathmandu: The greatest place on earth to get lost
13. Kathmandu: Full of mystery, culture, history — and trash
14. ‘A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles’
15. Who has the strongest necks in the world?
16. Hey hey, they’re some monkeys
17. After the Himalayan: The Terai
18. Watch where you step: Chitwan National Park
19. At the end of the road: Pokhara
20. Final Destination 8 (in 3D): The luckiest travelers in the world
21. Tibet to Nepal: ‘The Journey Not the Arrival Matters’