[Leica] Keep Looking Up

[Wayne Torry]

Douglas,
You’re bringing back fond memories of sights from the other end of my
visual memories.
Back in the 1990s I worked overseas for a few years. New Orleans to
Nigeria, Angola or Kazakhstan was my itinerary.
One trip, on a gorgeous, clear midday I was treated to a fabulous view of
the southern end of Ireland. Please fill in the counties I was looking at.
I remember green, dark rocks and white surf. And no camera handy.
Ireland is truly spectacular on a clear day from 30+ thousand feet!
Wayne

On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 8:39 AM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> There's a smaller number of aircraft still flying over our house at the
> moment as the great circle routes from Europe to the US generally fly
> over Ireland, and quite a few - like Frankfurt to New York - fly more or
> less directly at 34,000 feet over our house in Monkstown. While a sunny
> day right now the atmospheric haze are interfering with clear shots. I'd
> forgotten I had an old 2x converter, but just remembered this morning,
> and dug it out. It's a 42mm screw mount Tokina, so will match perfectly
> with my Pentacon 300/5.6 - a really historic high end combo :-)
>
> I'm going to set it up on my patio to see if I can catch an aircraft or
> two - there's a Frankfurt to Washington 787-10 Dreamliner on its way to
> the airspace over Wales right now, so maybe I'll be lucky with the haze
> in a few minutes. Flight Radar 24 is a great program.
>
> Douglas
>
>
> On 25/05/2020 05:14, CartersXRd via LUG wrote:
> > <https://2020.cartersxrd.net/CX2020/2020.05.22x.html>
> >
> > The Daily Ric -EXTRA-
> > Friday, May 22, 2020
> > Keep Looking Up Week 18 is posted. You can see the pics at the link.
> >
> > Ric Carter
> > www.2020.CartersXRd.net
> > http://www.facebook.com/ric.carter
> >
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