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Subject: [Leica] Point Reyes Seashore: flora, fauna and vistas
From: jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)
Date: Fri May 20 14:06:10 2005
References: <4cfa589b0505201215436abe68@mail.gmail.com>

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
> 
> 
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