[Leica] Point Reyes Seashore: flora, fauna and vistas

[creativevisions at verizon.net (Michael J Herring)]

Beautiful  - Adam ! ! !
Especially - L3U2504.jpg>

I really want one of the 100mm Macro Elmarits for my Canon.

Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Bridge" <abridge@gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 3:15 PM
Subject: [Leica] Point Reyes Seashore: flora, fauna and vistas


> 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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