Re: [Leica] Recient trip to California

[Allan Wafkowski <allanwafkowski@mac.com>]

Interesting location, beautiful colors, well chosen angles. Did you 
really use a polarizer as often as the captions say you did (I know I  
sometimes don't bother to change the information on Photo.net because 
they make it difficult). Some of those shots would have brought out my 
tripod using ISO 50. Were they all hand-held? I'm thinking: "ISO 50 with 
polarizer (-2 stops) = tripod."

Allan


On Wednesday, July 24, 2002, at 10:01 AM, Aram Langhans wrote:
> A few weeks ago I returned from a three week trip to Southern 
> California.
> While there, we went to the Mission Inn in Riverside with Margie's 
> sister
> and brother-in-law and we were walking around outside and inside the 
> inn.
> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=898233
> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=898239
> There was some sort of party going on in the street area.  While 
> wandering
> around, we found the spiral stairs but they were behind a glass door, 
> and
> only inn guests could enter.  Margie (my wife) and Alice walked a bit
> further, but I was trying to get a shot through the glass
> (http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=898259), when a lady who 
> must
> have been runnng the street party walked up to the door and was going to
> enter.  She asked if we had any questions about the stairs or the Inn, 
> and
> Joe said no, but that I would like to get a good shot of them.  She 
> kind of
> looked, smiled and said she couldn't really let us in.  She then 
> started to
> open the door and said that if we followed her in, there was really 
> nothing
> she could do about that.  With a smile, she entered and we followed.  
> She
> then said that perhaps we had better follow her to her office, as 
> security
> was probably watching.  Her office was just a few feet into the stair 
> well,
> so we followed and as she opened her office door she gave us some 
> history
> and told us about the symbols in the stairs.  She bid us good-by and I 
> got
> my shot of the stairs from the entry level.
> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=898258
>  We then decided to climb the stairs.  Margie and Alice had wandered 
> back to
> the door while I was taking my photo, and Joe said he couldn't let them 
> in,
> as security was watching.  I would have let them in.  They wandered off 
> and
> we then wandered up the stairs,
> (http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=898256) to the penthouses 
> and
> presidential suites that go for $1000 a night and spent about 45 minutes
> wandering all over that place.  There is way more to that place than 
> meets
> the eye.  Lots of courtyards, levels, stairs, wallkways...  Quite a 
> place.
> Here are some shots that only the registered guests are privilaged to.
> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=898244
> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=898241
> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=898245
> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=898263
> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=898248
> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=898250
> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=898238
>
>
> We found our way out and then tried to find Margie and Alice.  We 
> looked for
> about 15 minutes and then we found them.  Well, they were anything but
> pleased to see us.  They had been walking around the outside in 100 
> degree
> heat for an hour looking for us.  They verbially assulted us in the 
> street
> and if they had been violent people, I am sure Joe and I would have 
> ended up
> in the emergency room.  Even swinging my heavy R8 would not have stopped
> them.  Margie still won't look at these photos.
>
> And, as Paul Harvey would say, and that's the rest of the story.
>
> Aram
>
>
> This message is made of 100% recycled electrons.  No new atoms were
> destroyed in making it.
>
> Aram Langhans
> Science Teacher, Naches High School
> 101 W. 5th. St / P. O. Box 159
> Naches, WA 98937
>
> "Science Rules"
>
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