[Leica] Mt. Rushmore

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nice work

ric


> On Sep 29, 2018, at 8:34 PM, Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
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> If you live in the US you need to see Mt. Rushmore.  I am not overly patriotic, but it is a moving place.  In the day time it looks like this.
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/f8/mr/Mt+Rushmore-8546.jpg.html
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> You can hike to the base and look up, and to the gallery where it explains how it was done, but this trip the trail was closed for renovations.
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> But you really need to see the evening event.  It starts out after dark with a ranger talk that is very good.
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/f8/mr/Mt+Rushmore-8573.jpg.html
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> Then they call for all the veterans to come on stage.  While a vet, I stayed in the stand to take a few photos. They play the national anthem, then they take the flag down.  Kind of funny to see them try to remember how to fold the flag.
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/f8/mr/Mt+Rushmore-8578.jpg.html
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> Then they play a video and turn the lights on the statues.  I stuck around to let most people leave to get this photo of the lighted faces with the big dipper above them.
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/f8/mr/Mt+Rushmore-8582-Edit.jpg.html Not sure how this will look as it was only done on my laptop. Looks pretty good on my laptop.  Hope so on a real monitor.
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> Then you walk back through the hall of flags, where the state flags fly in order of when they became states.
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/f8/mr/Mt+Rushmore-8590.jpg.html
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> As I said, a moving experience for even me, who has not been too patriotic since Vietnam.
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> Comments welcome
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> Aram
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