Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/01/28

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Subject: [Leica] Frosty trip
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 12:58:13 -0600
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Excellent use of color.  Listening to SWAMBO is a great way to stay in a
happy marriage.

On Fri, Jan 28, 2022, 12:42 PM Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> I decided to go to the top of the ridge to our north up to the
> communications towers to see if it was above the fog.  I have made the
> trip may times before, but not in fog.  I wanted a picture of the valley
> smothered in fog with Autanum ridge peeking up through it.  I never made
> it to the top.  About a third of the way up the fog got thicker and
> thicker.  Up there it is a maze of dirt roads that crisscross the
> hillside  At spots I could hardly see two car lengths in front of me so
> we crept along taking roads I thought went to the top but ended up at a
> dead end somewhere I think to the east of the top in thick fog.  I did
> stop and get a few shots on the way down.  Margie did not want me to try
> any more roads even though I thought I spotted my mistake.  There are
> houses scattered all along the hillside. If someone lived up there and
> was going home at night in this they would have had a heck of a time not
> going off the road and down a cliff.
>
> I found a pine tree just off the road.
>
> Pine Tree and Frost-1010342 (leica-users.org)
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/w22/Pine+Tree+and+Frost-1010342.jpg.html
> >
>
> I was not going to walk up to it as the bank was a bit steep, but I am
> glad I did.  It was well decorated with frost.  All I had was my Q2,
> which was probably not the best tool.  I wanted to go back with my
> 100APO, but Margie was not too thrilled about me going, so saner minds
> prevailed.  Start here for the decorations. View large.  The Q2 can take
> it.
>
> Pine Tree and Frost-1010370 (leica-users.org)
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/w22/Pine+Tree+and+Frost-1010370.jpg.html
> >
>
> Comments welcome.
> Aram
>
> --
> Aram Langhans
> (Semi) Retired Science Teacher
> & Unemployed photographer
>
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In reply to: Message from leica_r8 at hotmail.com (Aram Langhans) ([Leica] Frosty trip)