Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Awesome introduction...you made me go straight to the photos, which are beautiful. My only complaint is the relative lack of people photos. There must have been some great bonding moments, although perhaps pulling the camera out would have ruined them. Anyway, great photos. What film did you use? What filter on the sky shots? - -Aaron At 03:00 PM 6/19/2003, you wrote: >Each year my brother, brothers-in-law (ahem, "the men") mark off a about >as much time as we can spare for the hallowed "ain't life simple with >everything on my back" backpack trip. > >Historically, this has gravitated to the desert southwest somewhere >(Viva Red Rock! Coyotes Unite!). Some place inhospitable, manly and >hard. Where water, when you find it, is 4 miles from camp, up a canyons >in small scummy puddles full of with water bugs, lizards and the like. >Where the heat often exceeds 108 degrees and that 10L camelback bladder >full of said water becomes your most important asset (however >mineral-hard it tastes). > >You can have your beaches, with their attendant blue water. You can >have your alpine granite, ridgelines and crampons. You can have your >Xbox and the cathode-ray nipple. > >I'll take red rock, lizards and scraggly juniper, thankyouverymuch! > >This year, we wandered off in the Needles district of Canyonlands >National Park, UT. It was hot, the hiking was physically challenging and >the surrounding views were stunning. > >Each night we sat around, headlamps aglow to read from the good book >(Edward Abbey, that is), play cards and make fun of how fast one or the >other came down with heat exhaustion. But I digress... > >http://www.heninger.org/gallery/canyonlands2003/index.htm > > >. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . >w a d e h e n i n g e r >i n t e r a c t i o n d e s i g n >a d o b e s y s t e m s , i n c . > > >-- >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