Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/02/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nice view - provided you make it to the top! Going back must have been a breeze, though! Cheers Jayanand On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 11:40 AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > One of my favourite cycling routes is up to the town of Jijona and then on > to the Carrasqueta mountain pass. The distance is 35 km and the ride takes > me from sea level to 1020 meters altitude. It is also a very pretty road, > and of course, once the climb is done, it is all downhill :-) > > I did this ride again on Sunday, and since my little Ricoh GRII has been > sent to a repair shop in Valencia for sensor cleaning, I took my 10-years > old Panasonic GF1 with the 14-42mm kit lens. It worked quite well as a > cycling camera and gave me some more flexibility in terms of focal lengths. > The image quality is not as good as that of the Ricoh, but for daytime > photography it is good enough (the difference is mainly visible at high > ISO). > > Four images from the ride. > > The beginning of the more serious part of the climb. At this stage, I have > climbed to about 500 meters and cycled 25 km. Now what is left is the last > 10 km and 500 meter to get to the pass: > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-5Szf96S/A > > I had to pee, so I stopped at a place with pretty almond flowers. They are > everywhere right now: > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-VpqfsK8/A > > About 6.5 km from the pass there is a roadside bar with a large gravel > parking lot with homemade tables and benches that is very popular among the > many motorcyclists who enjoy the twisty mountain roads on weekends: > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-gfkbKd7/A > > And finally, the view from the top: > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-Bf3p7qH/A > > Cheers, > Nathan > > > Nathan Wajsman > > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> > http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws < > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ < > http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> > > Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator < > http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> > > YNWA > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >