Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A nice group, Adam. Makes me a little homesick even after 31 years. Jim Adam Bridge wrote: > My wife was running a native grasses identification workshop in Point > Reyes this week so I tagged along to carry heavy things and to shoot > some photos. > > Wednesday was, literally, a wash-out with unseasonable heavy rains, > but Thursday turned glorious. > > This ice-plant was close to our room: > > <http://www.adambridge.com/Photos/2005/05/19/_L3U2504.jpg> > > This little fellow gave us a fleeting shot - hand-holding the 560 > telyt accounts for a bit of the lack of sharpness, I think. This is a > goldfinch I think? > > <http://www.adambridge.com/Photos/2005/05/19/_L3U2536.jpg> > > Down hear a beach was a generous stand of ice-plant. I find the colors > of its fleshy foliage to be fascinating - almost alien - like the > plants from Mars in "War of the Worlds". > > <http://www.adambridge.com/Photos/2005/05/19/_L3U2565.jpg> > > Only an hour and a half from San Francisco, the beaches are vast, and cold. > > <http://www.adambridge.com/Photos/2005/05/19/_L3U2599.jpg> > > And only for the hardy . . . or maybe foolhardy... > > <http://www.adambridge.com/Photos/2005/05/19/_L3U2569.jpg> > > At the end of day I tried for something a bit artistic: > > <http://www.adambridge.com/Photos/2005/05/19/_L3U2625.jpg> > > If you'd like to read more about Point Reyes I can point you to the > National Park Services site. It's a National Seashore, entry is free > and worth every penny. I may have a few more shots later of the tule > elk we found munching shoulder-high grass along a hillside. > > <http://www.nps.gov/pore/> > > If you should head that way I STRONGLY urge you to have dinner at the > the Point Reyes Station House: a wonderful room, superb food at very > reasonable prices, closed Wednesdays. We were there on an "off" day so > we didn't have to wait. But trust me, a wait is worthwhile. > > Oh - techie stuff - shot with the 1Ds Mk II with either the 100 APO or > the 280 or 560 Telyt except for the beach vista which was with the > 24-70 f2.8L Canon and a polarizing filter. > > Comments of course are invited. > > Adam > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >