[Leica] Great Sand Dunes National Park

[Robert Adler]

Howard,
These are great. This park is on my short list and your images make it hard
to wait.
I imagine there was no water flowing at the time? I'm planning on going in
the winter; would you think that would be wise? We're towing a travel
trailer...
Thanks for showing,
Bob


On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 9:47 PM, Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net> wrote:

> We’re currently finishing up our first major (3 weeks) RV trip. One of the
> most memorable stops was at Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in
> Colorado. Here prodigious amounts of sand produced over eons by erosion of
> the San Luis Mountains has been carried by prevailing westerly winds across
> the San Luis Valley, eventually getting deposited as the wind becomes
> turbulent at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Easterly winter
> winds push the sand back down off the mountains so that it has accumulated
> in a field miles across and about 225 m/750ft high. From up close at the
> base, the dune field is awesome (in the old sense, before the word was
> bleached of its meaning), massive, serene, dwarfing even the cloud shadows
> that fall on it.
>
> Here is a link to my favorite several images:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/dunes/
>
> All shot with my favorite grab-and-go camera, the Sony NEX7. I was unsure
> about trusting $20K worth of M240 and lenses to the security of an RV for
> several weeks, but I think that caution was unnecessary. Anyway, this way I
> could use a circular polarizer, which I routinely use for landscapes,
> especially when blue sky is in the picture.
>
> C&C solicited and welcomed.
>
> —howard
>
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Bob Adler