[Leica] IMG: On the edge of torrents

[foto at marcdufour.net (Marc Dufour)]

This is all worth the wet incident, Richard.
A great and spectacular picture!
Marc

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De: lug-bounces+foto=marcdufour.net at leica-users.org 
[mailto:lug-bounces+foto=marcdufour.net at leica-users.org] En nombre de 
Richard
Man
Enviado el: s?bado, 06 de abril de 2013 22:13
Para: Leica Users Group
Asunto: [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

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// richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> // 
http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto

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