Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- --=====================_270815282==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At 10:26 AM 21/12/99 -0800, you wrote: >I will be going to the Golden Gate ferry pier, right behind the Gabbiano's >restaurant for the moonrise. From this angle, you will see the moon above >the Bay Bridge. Tomorrow night, I will try going to Marin Headlands. > >I am armed with an M6HM (with Rapidwinder) and Elmarit 90mm, as well as, >ahem, a Nikon F3/T with a 180mm lens. I have my trusty Leica tabletop >tripod in my chest pocket. > SIGH! The sun is starting to go down here now but I won't be doing any moon shots tonight. Solid overcast and SNOW!!!! I even arranged for access to the top of an office building overlooking the city, harbour and North Atlantic ocean beyond. Last night was perfectly clear and the moon made the ocean positively glow as it rose out of the ocean with the city in the foreground. ....maybe tomorrow night? Greg Locke St. John's, Newfoundland locke@straylight.ca http://www.straylight.ca - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Touched By Fire: doctors without borders in a third world crisis. http://www.straylight.ca/touchedbyfire.htm ISBN#0-7710-5305-3 McClelland & Stewart - --=====================_270815282==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" <html> At 10:26 AM 21/12/99 -0800, you wrote:<br> <font size=2><blockquote type=cite cite>I will be going to the Golden Gate ferry pier, right behind the Gabbiano's restaurant for the moonrise. From this angle, you will see the moon above the Bay Bridge. Tomorrow night, I will try going to Marin Headlands.</font><br> <br> <font size=2>I am armed with an M6HM (with Rapidwinder) and Elmarit 90mm, as well as, ahem, a Nikon F3/T with a 180mm lens. I have my trusty Leica tabletop tripod in my chest pocket.</font><br> </blockquote><br> SIGH! The sun is starting to go down here now but I won't be doing any moon shots tonight. Solid overcast and SNOW!!!!<br> <br> I even arranged for access to the top of an office building overlooking the city, harbour and North Atlantic ocean beyond.<br> <br> Last night was perfectly clear and the moon made the ocean positively glow as it rose out of the ocean with the city in the foreground.<br> <br> ....maybe tomorrow night?<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <div>Greg Locke St. John's, Newfoundland</div> <div>locke@straylight.ca <a href="http://www.straylight.ca/" EUDORA=AUTOURL>http://www.straylight.ca</a></div> <div>------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div> <div>Touched By Fire: doctors without borders in a third world crisis.</div> <div><a href="http://www.straylight.ca/touchedbyfire.htm" EUDORA=AUTOURL>http://www.straylight.ca/touchedbyfire.htm</a> </div> ISBN#0-7710-5305-3 McClelland & Stewart </html> - --=====================_270815282==_.ALT--