Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/04/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Beautiful. Gear can be fixed or replaced-I'm glad you are okay. This is why rock fishing is so dangerous, and why you need someone to keep an eye out for you when you photograph, or do anything else that requires you to be near, but not looking at, the sea. http://www.safewaters.nsw.gov.au/assets/pdf/rockfishreport_sept03.pdf Marty On Sunday, 7 April 2013, Richard Man wrote: > My daughter and I went to the coast yesterday, which we usually do once or > twice a year. I watched the waves coming over the rock "wall" with the sea > palms for about 15 mins and found a spot about 25 feet from the rock wall > for a photo. All these times, the wave only reached about 10 feet beyond > the wall (yes, you can see where this is going, don't you?) > > Then my daughter went back up for a moment, and I started to focus on the > far side - the waves beyond the wall. This is with my head inside the dark > cloth behind the 4x5 camera. > > I saw a couple waves went over, and then I saw this big wave coming over on > the ground glass and thinking to myself, hmmm... that wave looks kind of > big... "Oh Sh*$%^t" and my legs got wet. Removing my head from the dark > cloth, I saw that there were some spray on my camera and my camera bag 4 > feet further away got soaked. > > Fortunately my film holders were in ziplock bags and they were OK. Some > lens got some spray. I wiped them and dried them as much as I could. I > moved back another 10 feet, finally took some photos, and watched the waves > some more, and for another 30 minutes or more, no wave ever reached that > far again.... > > In any case, when we got home, I disassembled, washed, and cleaned the > lens. > > I hope this is all worth it! > > http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/20130406-Scanned-19.jpg > > -- > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >