Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/04/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Super shot. Well worth a dunking. Cheers Jayanand On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 1:43 AM, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com>wrote: > 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 > > -- > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >