Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/06/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Lovely stuff Bob very effective use of slow shutter speeds on the fast-flowing water, makes them slighly mystical. And it's always fascinating to see how industrial heritage eventually fits into the landscape, too. Cheers Douglas For anyone who's interested, there's a little information on the industrial archeology of the area here: http://www.bonny-doon.info/authors-6.htm > > > Bob > On Jun 22, 2008, at 7:59 PM, Bob Adler wrote: > > After Yosemite in April/May, attention turned back to Big Sur. About > an hour south of the town of Big Sur is a California State Park, Lime > Kiln. If you drive in and walk down to the ocean, it's completely > uninspiring. The first time we did that and just got back in the > vehicle and continued on. > > Next time, on a tip from a co-worker, we went the other way, deep into > a beautiful redwood forest with at least 3 major streams. One ends at > a 100 foot high waterfall which I didn't shoot. It's not a regular > waterfall with a couple of torrents showering down; it has about 100 > little falls that fan out from the top so the bottom of the falls is > as wide as the falls are high. Jim Brick has some good shots of it, > after climbing like a mountain goat which I wasn't about to do. > > Another stream goes up to the lime kilns. These are mammoth kilns > built in the late 1800s to extract lime from the limestone. There are > 3 of them, each about 30 - 40 feet high; steel turrets falling apart > in these beautiful overgrown redwood forests. How they built these > monstrosities way up on this hill in the middle of nowhere and how > they got the lime stones up and resultant lime back down is beyond me. > > The third major stream is just a beautiful walk going nowhere; my kind > of place... > > http://www.raflexions.com/LKP > > Hope you enjoy these. Certainly worth a walk if you're ever in the area, > Bob > > P.S. - Tech stuff: Hasselblad (flex and 203), Velvia 50 and FP4 taken > with various combinations of apprx. 40lbs of gear muled around on my > back... > Bob Adler > Palo Alto, CA > http://www.raflexions.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >