Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/08/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ugghhh! I was thinking of lugging the 30lbs worth of medium format along... Doesn't sound wise, but so hard to resist... Did you ever go over to the other side (north side I think)? On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Aram Langhans <leica_r8 at hotmail.com> wrote: > Love that place and your pictures are great. But did you hike to the top? > I timed some of it. About half way up is a sort of level area and that is > where my wife pooped out. That was at about 250 feet. I went from there, > stopping in a few places to photograph, and it took me 45 minutes to slog > up, two steps forward, one step back. I was exhausted but thrilled to be > at > the top of the High Dune on the first ridge. They say it is 700', but it > was the hardest 700' I ever did. Rested at the top and took some photos, > then turned to go down. I packed my camera carefully in a case and under > my > windbreaker in case I fell, then off I went. I timed it, too. It took > less > than 4 minutes to get back to her. Each step with the sliding down was > probably 15-20 feet. It was like skiing. Amazing and fun. > > Aram > > Aram Langhans > (Semi) Retired Science Teacher > & Unemployed photographer > > ?The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself > would ever have dared dream.? James D. Watson > > -----Original Message----- > From: Howard Ritter [mailto:hlritter at bex.net] > Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2014 9:47 PM > To: Leica Users Group; MUGers at yahoogroups.com > Subject: [Leica] Great Sand Dunes National Park > > We?re currently finishing up our first major (3 weeks) RV trip. One of the > most memorable stops was at Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in > Colorado. Here prodigious amounts of sand produced over eons by erosion of > the San Luis Mountains has been carried by prevailing westerly winds across > the San Luis Valley, eventually getting deposited as the wind becomes > turbulent at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Easterly winter > winds push the sand back down off the mountains so that it has accumulated > in a field miles across and about 225 m/750ft high. From up close at the > base, the dune field is awesome (in the old sense, before the word was > bleached of its meaning), massive, serene, dwarfing even the cloud shadows > that fall on it. > > Here is a link to my favorite several images: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/dunes/ > > All shot with my favorite grab-and-go camera, the Sony NEX7. I was unsure > about trusting $20K worth of M240 and lenses to the security of an RV for > several weeks, but I think that caution was unnecessary. Anyway, this way I > could use a circular polarizer, which I routinely use for landscapes, > especially when blue sky is in the picture. > > C&C solicited and welcomed. > > ?howard > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Bob Adler