Re: [Leica] Any LUGers in Muir Woods recently?

[Ken Iisaka <kiisaka@pacbell.net>]

> Were any of our LUG members out in Muir Woods on the 30th, near noon?
> For the first time, I spotted someone else carrying an M6 (Titanium?)
> but didn't get a chance to stop and chat-no slight intended! I was
> headed in the other direction, carrying my chrome M6 and Heliar lens.
> Lovely area, though I found it a challenge to frame up an ultrawide
> composition in a hurry and though the spotlights of sun in the dark
> forest look appealingly theatrical, I guessimated a 5+ stop contrast
> range (nice time to have a 4x5 and some TMY exposed at 100) so with the
> handheld camera, I mostly photographed the forest canopy high overhead
> with no worries about details in the sky or whether the trees would show
> up as silhouettes--nice snapshot, I think.

No, it wasn't me, but I live in Mill Valley just on the opposite side of the
ridge above Muir Woods.  By car, it's a 10 minute drive.  By bike it's a
good 20 minute ride.  It's a wonderful 1 hour hike, too.

As I live in a redwood forest, I see very little need to hop over to see,
um, more redwood trees.  It's still a very special place, however.