[Leica] Uncle Ric's Wayback Week 15 (twofer)

[drodgers at casefarms.com (David Rodgers)]

Ric,

Great images! Every time I see you ST-801 photos it brings back
memories. I still have mine, along with an ST-901. (They both still
work). The 50/1.4 EBC Fujinon lens is excellent. 

Regarding small silvery fish, when I was a kid my family vacationed at
Avila Beach, which is right by Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in CA. One night
my dad took me to the beach to see the grunion run. 

Some people think the grunion is a myth. I wish I had pictures, but
because it took place at night under a full moon I'd have probably
needed a Noct and at 10-years-old I couldn't have afforded an M3, much
less a Noct.  

It really was a surreal experience, which I remember to this day as more
of a dream than reality. For info about the running of the grunion --
fact or myth -- check this out.

http://www.dfg.ca.gov/Mrd/gruschd.html
http://www.dfg.ca.gov/Mrd/grnindx3.html

DaveR

-----Original Message-----
From: Ric Carter [mailto:ricc@mindspring.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 9:24 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: [Leica] Uncle Ric's Wayback Week 15 (twofer)

Redneck Salmon.

Each year, Jamesville, NC (on the Roanoke River) celebrates Herring  
Festival. Herring are an anadromous fish that breeds in the swamps of  
northeastern North Carolina each spring. They have been a food staple  
as long as our history reads. Numbers are getting lower each year. A  
limited fishery was allowed this year, mostly as a salute to  
tradition. The commercial fishery is dead.

These shots for the 1982 Festival salute the old timers who long  
depended on the fish, and the younger generation who just celebrated  
and enjoyed it.

Seated at a fishing shack overhanging the Roanoke River.
http://tinyurl.com/364p59

Not all the reverie was that of old folk contemplating the past and  
thanking nature for the bounty:
http://tinyurl.com/39dbpn

I didn't want to go either/or this week.

Thanks for you time.

Comment if you will.

Ric Carter
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/ricc/