[Leica] Quartzite AZ

[daveenglish at icloud.com (David English)]

Wow, the night shots are beautiful, thanks for showing them.
David

On Jan 28, 2013, at 10:54 AM, Aram Langhans <leica_r8 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> For those who don't know, Quartzite AZ is normally a sleepy little town of 
> just over 3000 on I-10, but once a year it turns into a giant rock show, 
> swap meet, RV show and who know what else.  My father-in-law has been 
> going there for probably 30 years or more.  The last 10 have seen it 
> dwindle down to maybe from maybe close to a million visitors in January to 
> 3/4 million, according to the Arizona HW Dept, 
> http://www.quartzsitervshow.com/, but I think that at any one day there 
> may be 250,000 wandering around town.  Amazing.  I wish I had a photo of 
> all the RV's scattered all over many square miles of BLM land as you crest 
> the hill coming into town from the west.
> 
> This year we tagged along with him and my sister-in-law and spend three 
> days there.  Here are a few shots I got.
> 
> One HUGE tent for the RV show.  So many people on Saturday it was hard to 
> even see anything.  The center isle is not so bad, but the sides are 
> shoulder to shoulder.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/c2/q/Quartzite-0474.jpg.html
> 
> Lots of shopping outside. We wandered for 5 hours or so, three days, and 
> did not see it all.  Bought a few things and some nice rocks.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/c2/q/Quartzite-0494.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/c2/q/Quartzite-0439.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/c2/q/Quartzite-0499.jpg.html
> 
> Then famous fish dinner at Sweet Darlene's with the unavoidable self 
> portrait waiting to get in.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/c2/q/Quartzite-0441.jpg.html
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/c2/q/Quartzite-0445.jpg.html
> 
> Dry camping, so my father-in-law is putting up his solar panels.  He is 
> still  there and will stay a few weeks.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/c2/q/Quartzite-0436.jpg.html
> 
> He likes to camp away from everyone so he does not here their generators
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/c2/q/Quartzite-0540.jpg.html
> 
> Even though there was a half moon, the stars put on a pretty good show at 
> night.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/c2/q/Quartzite-0521.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/c2/q/Quartzite-0533-Edit.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/c2/q/Quartzite-0535.jpg.html
> 
> 
> Comments welcome.  At least one her is with Leica 35-70/4.
> 
> Aram
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> Aram Langhans
> (Semi) Retired (retarded?) Science Teacher
> & Unemployed photographer
> 
> "The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself 
> would ever have dared dream."   James D. Watson 
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