[Leica] Quartzite AZ

[kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)]

Those night shots are beautiful.  They make me want to unpack my telescope
and re-learn where everything is - or buy one of the new scopes where you
just push a button.

Ken

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From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Aram
Langhans
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 12:55 PM
To: Leica Users Group; Leica Reflex
Subject: [Leica] Quartzite AZ

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

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/c2/q/Quartzite-0439.jpg.html

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

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/c2/q/Quartzite-0533-Edit.jpg.html

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






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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