[Leica] Panos from Manado

[hlritter at bex.net (Howard Ritter)]

That volcano shot is spectacular, Howard. You should visit NASA's  
Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) website at

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/

and submit it. Because it shows the sky's most spectacular  
constellation, Orion, setting right over the volcano (the three bright  
stars in a line are his belt, and off to the left of it his sword), it  
has what should be the requisite astronomy content to qualify for APOD  
consideration. Go for it!

?howard

On Apr 12, 2009, at 8:53 PM, H&ECummer wrote:

> Hi Luggers,
> Esther and I have been away again - first with a stop over in  
> Singapore (where we were married 35 years ago and where three of our  
> four children were born) and then on to Manado in Northern Sulawesi  
> where my former Chinese business partner sponsors an orphanage and a  
> university which we also support. Before we get to the orphanage and  
> university convocation pictures here are some panos from the  
> spectacular scenery.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Manada/Lightning_Volcano.jpg.html
> http://tinyurl.com/coh4gs
>
> One evening there was a thunderstorm around the base of Mount Lokon  
> - a supposedly extinct volcano - from which steam continually rises  
> on the far right side of the mountain (from our vantage point).
> I set up the M8 on a railing - set exposure at 8 seconds - using the  
> Tri Elmar at 50mm - and used the timer at 2 seconds. The noise  
> reduction on the M8 - which takes 8 seconds for an 8 second exposure  
> - meant that I could only expose every 18 seconds. It took many  
> tries to have the shutter open when the lightning flashed.