Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/04/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Very nice photo Richard. Cheers, Gene ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Man" <richard at richardmanphoto.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Saturday, April 6, 2013 3:13:18 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: [Leica] IMG: On the edge of torrents 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