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Subject: [Leica] Moonrise over Quartzsite
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 06:22:54 +0530
References: <BLU173-DS1953283BAE2BB54E438108B8AE0@phx.gbl>

Aram,
The last two for me
Cheers
Jayanand

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 5:53 AM, Aram Langhans <leica_r8 at hotmail.com> 
wrote:
> Not quite Ansel Adams, but it was interesting.  These were taken about two 
> weeks ago in the massive BLM land around Quartzsite where hundreds of 
> thousands of campers descend on the poor town for a few weeks.
>
> View Large, Please
>
> The moon not quite up yet.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/w3/q/moonrise-7788.jpg.html
>
> I was trying to line up a shot with the trailers we were in, when my 
> sister-in-law and her dad came around the corner, flashlights blaring and 
> I got this.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/w3/q/moonrise-7785.jpg.html
>
> What I really wanted was this:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/w3/q/moonrise-7786.jpg.html
>
> but I actually like the first one better.
>
> OK.  moon is up now.  Let's see if I can get stars and moon, too.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/w3/q/moonrise-7731.jpg.html
>
> And I noticed the shadows being cast by the moon, so tried to capture 
> those, too.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/w3/q/moonrise-7746.jpg.html
>
> It was fun, if not cold.
>
> All exposures about 30 seconds.  The first three I also used a flashlight 
> to paint the cactus and the trailers.
>
> Comments welcome.
>
> 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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