[Leica] Gold Creek Pond

[Don Dory]

Indeed a beautiful spot.  East of the Cascades is definitely a different
culture than coastal Washington.

On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 4:07 AM Peter Klein via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> This is a favorite place of ours. A beautiful pond surrounded by the
> Cascade Mountains, just east of Snoqualmie Pass summit. You don't have
> to be a super hiker to get there and enjoy it. We celebrated my wife's
> birthday there this time. The area had only a little of the wildfire
> smoke that has been choking the Seattle area the past couple of weeks.
> And I bagged this shot.
> <
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/52436706939/in/dateposted-public/
> >
>
> Leica M10-P and Voigtlander 50/1.2. Enjoy!
>
> I have to share one more thing. The pictured spot is a favorite backdrop
> for wedding and engagement photos. Just before we left, a young couple
> and their equally young female photographer arrived for a shoot. As we
> watched them, we realized that this was neither of the above. It was a
> "we're having a baby" shoot. The mother-to-be was all decked out in a
> full-length green velvet gown. The father-to-be was a burly, bearded,
> "Real Northwest Man" kind of guy wearing shorts and a black T-shirt.
> Further observation determined that the photographer was as pregnant as
> her subject. I have no pictures of this potential parallelism of baby
> bumps, as I'm a nice guy, not a predatory paparazzo. I will say that
> everyone present had a good laugh over the situation.
>
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