Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/08/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Spectacular! Tina On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 12:47 AM, Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net> wrote: > 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 > -- Tina Manley http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/