[Leica] Quartzite AZ

[leica_r8 at hotmail.com (Aram Langhans)]

Thanks so much, Jacky.  One of my favorite songs and one of my favorite 
artists.  I remember being bussed as a child in 6th or 7th grade in Seattle 
to see a traveling Van Gogh exhibit.  It make a life long impression on me.

Aram

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From: "Jacky aus" <jackyaus at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 2:11 PM
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Subject: Re: [Leica] Quartzite AZ

> Dear Aram,
>
> Thank you so much for sharing the photos for the trip. I particularly like
> the photos for the starry night. It makes me thinking about the beautiful
> sky with creation of many stars, just like the pictures you capture, so
> quiet and so calm. It is so wonderful to have that by the night. Perhaps,
> that is why I remember this song -
>
> Vincent ( Starry, Starry Night) With Lyrics
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxHnRfhDmrk
> Hope that you also like this as an appreciation from me with another
> approach in sound.....
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jacky
>
>
>
> On 29 January 2013 08:23, David English <daveenglish at icloud.com> wrote:
>
>> Wow, the night shots are beautiful, thanks for showing them.
>> David
>>
>> On Jan 28, 2013, at 10:54 AM, Aram Langhans <leica_r8 at hotmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> > For those who don't know, Quartzite AZ is normally a sleepy little town
>> of just over 3000 on I-10, but once a year it turns into a giant rock 
>> show,
>> swap meet, RV show and who know what else.  My father-in-law has been 
>> going
>> there for probably 30 years or more.  The last 10 have seen it dwindle 
>> down
>> to maybe from maybe close to a million visitors in January to 3/4 
>> million,
>> according to the Arizona HW Dept, http://www.quartzsitervshow.com/, but I
>> think that at any one day there may be 250,000 wandering around town.
>>  Amazing.  I wish I had a photo of all the RV's scattered all over many
>> square miles of BLM land as you crest the hill coming into town from the
>> west.
>> >
>> > This year we tagged along with him and my sister-in-law and spend three
>> days there.  Here are a few shots I got.
>> >
>> > One HUGE tent for the RV show.  So many people on Saturday it was hard
>> to even see anything.  The center isle is not so bad, but the sides are
>> shoulder to shoulder.
>> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/c2/q/Quartzite-0474.jpg.html
>> >
>> > Lots of shopping outside. We wandered for 5 hours or so, three days, 
>> > and
>> did not see it all.  Bought a few things and some nice rocks.
>> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/c2/q/Quartzite-0494.jpg.html
>> >
>> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/c2/q/Quartzite-0439.jpg.html
>> >
>> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/c2/q/Quartzite-0499.jpg.html
>> >
>> > Then famous fish dinner at Sweet Darlene's with the unavoidable self
>> portrait waiting to get in.
>> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/c2/q/Quartzite-0441.jpg.html
>> >
>> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/c2/q/Quartzite-0445.jpg.html
>> >
>> > Dry camping, so my father-in-law is putting up his solar panels.  He is
>> still  there and will stay a few weeks.
>> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/c2/q/Quartzite-0436.jpg.html
>> >
>> > He likes to camp away from everyone so he does not here their 
>> > generators
>> >
>> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/c2/q/Quartzite-0540.jpg.html
>> >
>> > Even though there was a half moon, the stars put on a pretty good show
>> at night.
>> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/c2/q/Quartzite-0521.jpg.html
>> >
>> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/c2/q/Quartzite-0533-Edit.jpg.html
>> >
>> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/c2/q/Quartzite-0535.jpg.html
>> >
>> >
>> > Comments welcome.  At least one her is with Leica 35-70/4.
>> >
>> > Aram
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Aram Langhans
>> > (Semi) Retired (retarded?) Science Teacher
>> > & Unemployed photographer
>> >
>> > "The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin
>> himself would ever have dared dream."   James D. Watson
>> >
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