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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Along the American River
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 07:19:03 +0200
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Gorgeous, Adam.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
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YNWA









On Apr 6, 2013, at 12:34 AM, Adam Bridge wrote:

> Today while they installed running boards on our new Mercedes Benz 
> Sprinter van I rode a portion of the American River Bike Trail up to 
> California State University Sacramento where a replica of the Golden Gate 
> Bridge spans the river. Even though I've lived here for nearly four 
> decades I've never crossed this foot/cycling bridge. Today I took the 
> opportunity to ride across.
> 
> We had great clouds today, but challenging to capture, so I made an HDR 
> image, processed in in Photomatrix Pro. This is looking upstream to one of 
> the water intakes (I think). The river is low because there's not much 
> runoff out of Folsom Lake. There's not much runoff into Folsom Lake 
> either, now that I think of it, the Sierra snow pack is only about 60% of 
> normal for this time of year: grim news.
> 
> I'm rather pleased with the way this came out. It captures the dynamics of 
> the sky as I saw it.
> 
> <http://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/gallery/27796461_bZQWXL#!i=2442606062&k=5jKhdmW&lb=1&s=X3>
> 
> Shot with Sony NEX-7, Leica sumicron 35mm, f4 or thereabouts with 
> auto-bracketing turned on.
> 
> I think this image bears looking at large. I'm going to enjoy printing it.
> 
> Thanks for looking. Comments/critique always welcome.
> 
> Adam Bridge
> 
> 
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