[Leica] Trip to Grand Coulee Dam

[ric at cartersxrd.net (RicCarter)]

that first one is MOST striking to me

ric


On Jul 7, 2014, at 11:45 PM, Aram Langhans <leica_r8 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> If you have never been, you need to see this dam.  HUGE.  It had been 
> maybe 30 years since I last saw the dam.  This is the first time I have 
> been to see the LASER light show at night.
> 
> We took the tour of the pump house and the weather was threatening.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s4/gc/Grand+Coulee+Dam-1121.jpg.html
> 
> When we got out from the belly of the dam, the sky was falling as we ran 
> to the bus.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s4/gc/Grand+Coulee+Dam-1127.jpg.html
> 
> Normally the bus would drop people off mid dam and leave them as it went 
> further and turned around.  But with the pouring rain, and with permission 
> of the armed guards that accompany you, the stop consisted of a very brief 
> look-over.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s4/gc/Grand+Coulee+Dam-1133.jpg.html
> 
> As you can see, there was no water going over the spillway.  But when the 
> bus got back to the shack, they opened the spillway because the rains 
> along the 151 mile like added too much water.  Now days, the spillway is 
> not opened often.  Usually just a little bit at night for the light show.  
> But they were open pretty good for 3 hours or more to allow the excess 
> water out.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s4/gc/Grand+Coulee+Dam-1145.jpg.html
> 
> We hung around the visitors center and ate dinner, waiting for the show.  
> In our little RV, I overheard someone outside say something about a 
> rainbow, so I jumped out.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s4/gc/Grand+Coulee+Dam-1157.jpg.html
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s4/gc/Grand+Coulee+Dam-1160.jpg.html
> 
> The light show is almost impossible to photograph.  Things move quickly, 
> but every once in a while the image pauses to get a relatively non-blurred 
> photo
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s4/gc/Grand+Coulee+Dam-1175.jpg.html
> 
> The Visitors Center is awesome.  You can spend hours there watching the 
> many shows.  They had a  new one that was really good.
> 
> Comments welcome.  Feel free to view them large.
> 
> Aram
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> Aram Langhans
> (Semi) Retired (retarded?) Science Teacher
> & Unemployed photographer
> 
> "The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself 
> would ever have dared dream."   James D. Watson 
> 
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