[Leica] Point Reyes Seashore: flora, fauna and vistas

[abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)]

My wife was running a native grasses identification workshop in Point
Reyes this week so I tagged along to carry heavy things and to shoot
some photos.

Wednesday was, literally, a wash-out with unseasonable heavy rains,
but Thursday turned glorious.

This ice-plant was close to our room:

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This little fellow gave us a fleeting shot - hand-holding the 560
telyt accounts for a bit of the lack of sharpness, I think. This is a
goldfinch I think?

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Down hear a beach was a generous stand of ice-plant. I find the colors
of its fleshy foliage to be fascinating - almost alien - like the
plants from Mars in "War of the Worlds".

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Only an hour and a half from San Francisco, the beaches are vast, and cold.

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And only for the hardy . . . or maybe foolhardy...

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At the end of day I tried for something a bit artistic:

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If you'd like to read more about Point Reyes I can point you to the
National Park Services site. It's a National Seashore, entry is free
and worth every penny. I may have a few more shots later of the tule
elk we found munching shoulder-high grass along a hillside.

<http://www.nps.gov/pore/>

If you should head that way I STRONGLY urge you to have dinner at the
the Point Reyes Station House: a wonderful room, superb food at very
reasonable prices, closed Wednesdays. We were there on an "off" day so
we didn't have to wait. But trust me, a wait is worthwhile.

Oh - techie stuff - shot with the 1Ds Mk II with either the 100 APO or
the 280 or 560 Telyt except for the beach vista which was with the
24-70 f2.8L Canon and a polarizing filter.

Comments of course are invited.

Adam