Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The spring is a treat to the eye Bob You seem to be enjoying the camera a lot :-) Amiti?s Philippe Le 24 avr. 11 ? 04:37, Bob Adler a ?crit : > > Went out Friday just to practice and hoping to get some wildflowers > in the San > Miguel hills. Woke up at 4am and left the house at 5. Then I drove > south on > Highway 101 for about 3 hours and headed east to look at what I > thought would be > hills covered in wildflowers. None, nada, zip... > > So at about 10:30 I headed west to Fort Hunter Liggett, an old Army > Reserve > base. I've been shooting there the past 5 or 6 years with no > problem. I'd even > gone off road following fresh tank tracks looking for venues. Steve > Barbour has > a photo of mine, Bass Lake, that was taken while off roading on the > base. So > I've been waiting for the oak fields to spring forth with > wildflowers, I knew > this was my year! Sure enough, there were glorious patches that > would make fine > photographs. > > So I parked on the side of the road, grabbed the Hassy and walked > about 20 yards > into the field. As I'm futzing and setting up the shot, I hear > something that I > thought was a bull frog, as the filed was a bit mushy. I looked > around for the > frog nearby and didn't see one, so I went back to my camera. Then > louder, "SIR!" > and I turn around. Parked on the road was a Police car with a > trooper, in dark > glasses of course, who then told me to come out of the field. Long > story short, > I was "detained" for about a half an hour at the main gate and told > photos were > never allowed at the fort. Rather than get in an argument with a > heavily armed > man (who had 3 as heavily armed men standing nearby), I chatted him > up and asked > if he know where, off base, there might be some wildflowers. The guy > then > proceeded to tell me every hill and dale within a 50 mile radius. > Another 20 > minutes has now passed. > > I thank the gentleman very much, and just head down the to the > coast. I was > fuming. Really sapped the joy right out of the day. I'd been > dreaming about > those flowers in the filed with the mountains and puffy clouds for > years and > finally the time had arrived. Not... > So here are the pics from the day, and not many wild flowers. I did > manage to > grab a shot of the scene I was trying to shoot before I was > "disciplined." > > Thanks for looking. C&C always appreciated, > Bob > > www.rgaphoto.com/2011-04-22-DayTrip > Bob Adler > Palo Alto, CA > http://www.rgaphoto.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >