Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]i never heard of cryptobiotics before thanks simon j - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kit McChesney | acmefoto" <kitmc@acmefoto.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 8:52 PM Subject: RE: RE: [Leica] Uncertainty Principle > Doug-- > > That's true, unless you are stomping all over the tundra, which people do > here in the Rocky Mountains, especially at Rocky Mountain National Park. > They always want to get out there, off the trails, at high altitude, and get > a picture. I find myself yelling "get off the tundra!" quite a bit to folks > who are smashing plants that will probably take 100 years to regenerate. > Same thing with the cryptobiotic soil in Canyonlands. Very fragile stuff, > and takes generations to recover once it's been smashed. > > Kit > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Douglas > Herr > Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 12:02 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: RE: [Leica] Uncertainty Principle > > > Kit McChesney | acmefoto <kitmc@acmefoto.com> wrote: > > > Yes, I see what you mean about the work you do with the > > critters (always gorgeous, by the way), and that's just a very > > vivid, real-life example of how we do influence the "picture," > > or the big picture, so to speak. I still think the quantum > > physics example still applies. > > It even applies in landscape photos but we don't notice it 'cuz we (the > observers/measurement tools) are of a much smaller scale that the stuff > we're observing. In the landscape example the probablilty is very high that > the things we're observing are what would have been if we had not been there > :-) > > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html