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Subject: [Leica] A short day in Monterey
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Sun May 6 06:55:30 2007
References: <4cfa589b0705051539k6095715ai3b1fab1ec9f71df4@mail.gmail.com> <8c8849060705051854w71bed78bse7c47344ad765c5f@mail.gmail.com>

These two just jump out of the series:
http://www.pbase.com/jsjxyz/image/43806588
http://www.pbase.com/jsjxyz/image/43809846
Thanks for showing,
Philippe



Op 6-mei-07, om 03:54 heeft Jerry Justianto het volgende geschreven:

> I love Monterey, the small city is so photogenic.  The people are ones
> of the nicest people in the world.
>
> I love the harbour high tide.
>
> Hope to be there agin with my M8.
>
> my gallery in Monterey taken with leicasonic LC-1 ;)
> http://www.pbase.com/jsjxyz/sf2005
>
> JSJ
>
>
>
> On 5/6/07, Adam Bridge <abridge@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I needed to run down to Monterey to the Naval Postgraduate School on
>> Friday and since it's one of my wife's favorite places on the planet
>> (Monterey not the school) and Saturday being her birthday, she drove
>> down with me.
>>
>> We've actually come to love Moss Landing, about 20 miles north of
>> Monterey, quite a bit. It has a harbor with breakwater at the  
>> mouth of
>> Elkhorn Slough, a power plant, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research
>> Institute. Also a small number of curio shops and fresh fruit stands.
>> People work in Moss Landing and when they want to eat some seriously
>> good food they go to Phil's Fish Market.
>>
>>
>> We didn't find a place to park at Phil's (normal) so we parked on the
>> street across from the harbor where a barking sea lion was making a
>> pest of himself. Walking to Phil's we encountered this delightful
>> little place...
>>
>> <http://www.idea-processing.com/Images/Bday2007/L1001275.jpg>
>>
>> Here's the entrance to Phil's Fish Market:
>>
>> <http://www.idea-processing.com/Images/Bday2007/L1001280.jpg>
>>
>> Jan enjoying her Cinco de Mayo (and birthday) luncheon at Phil's!
>>
>> <http://www.idea-processing.com/Images/Bday2007/L1001284-rtch.jpg>
>>
>> After lunch we found an easy path to the beach where we found a
>> playful pup who was playing catch with his owner. I caught him  
>> just as
>> he took off after some sort of flexible cloth flying toy.
>>
>> <http://www.idea-processing.com/Images/Bday2007/L1001325-bw.jpg>
>>
>> Jan waved to a fishing boat as it stood into the harbor at high tide:
>>
>> <http://www.idea-processing.com/Images/Bday2007/L1001343-bw.jpg>
>>
>> For those of you who haven't been to Monterey Bay, do go to the
>> aquarium, it's one of the region's wonders. After a day at the
>> aquarium you can come up to Moss Landing and take one of the boat
>> tours that runs up Elkhorn Slough, then dinner at Phil's!
>>
>> Comments welcome. All shot with M8, Sumicron 35 asph, and I think
>> everything at 160. I do love this camera. The latest firmware is  
>> quite
>> nice.
>>
>> Adam
>>
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In reply to: Message from abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge) ([Leica] A short day in Monterey)
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