Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/10/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]We're going there for the first time in a couple of weeks - hope the Porches are gone. Also that Tioga Pass is open so we can go to Mono Lake. Ken On 10/11/2011 12:04 PM, Adam Bridge wrote: > No, I'm not insane, I didn't do that. My knee would explode and I just > don't think climbing a 45 degree slope sounds like a lot of fun to me. And > besides a hand-full of people have fallen this year. None survived. > > However, we were parked at Olmsted Point looking across at Half Dome. I > had hoped to get there a little earlier in the morning but I got engrossed > in documenting Tioga Pass so the sun was a bit high and there was a touch > of haze in the air. > > I mounted the 560 tele I bought from Doug Herr on an industrial-strength > fluid-head tripod, locked it down and photographed Half Dome. As I was > packing up a cluster of about a dozen Porches drove up and I heard one of > the drives saying that the cables that run up to the top of Half Dome are > on the left face as viewed from this perspective. > > Cool, I thought to myself, I should look when I get home. Which I did. > > <http://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/gallery/19446304_NvM63K#1524435664_gDBQqpH> > > This is a 1:1 crop sharpened and adjusted in Lightroom. You can make out > the figures and even the cable stays and perhaps a cable in one location. > Not too shabby! It's still difficult to focus but I think this is just > about spot-on. > > Comments welcome, of course. > > Adam Bridge > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >