[Leica] Trip to Collinsville - this time with GOOD URL's

[abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)]

Thank you Ric, glad you enjoyed it.

Adam

On 2/5/06, Ric Carter <ricc@mindspring.com> wrote:
> The animals are very nice, but the horizontal of the windmills blows
> me away. The saturation on the color and strong horizontal
> composition really work for me.
>
> Ric Carter
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Passing-Fancies
>
>
> On Feb 5, 2006, at 11:33 PM, Adam Bridge wrote:
>
> > (my apologies for posting twice but I made an error composing the URLs
> > and I didn't check them before sending.....ab)
> >
> > Today, while the world was watching the infinite pre-game shows
> > before the
> > Super-De-Duper Bowl we drove down to Collinsville, one of favorite
> > areas.
> >
> > Driving south from Davis about 30 miles the plains of the Central
> > Valley
> > abruptly begin to roll and then form a set of hills which bound the
> > Sacramento
> > River to the north, herding it, along with Mount Diablo to the
> > south, toward the
> > Carcinez Straits and San Francisco Bay.
> >
> > The rolling land is farmed - wheat, sheep, and goats being the most
> > often found
> > but there are still many small water courses and copses of trees,
> > usually
> > eucalyptus imported in the 1860's from Australia. The valley oaks
> > don't find the
> > terrain to their liking, I suppose.
> >
> > We drove to Bird's Landing and then west along a narrow partially
> > paved road
> > where we encountered this specimen strutting along the road as if
> > he owned it:
> >
> > <http://www.adambridge.com/Photos/2006/02/05/_L3U9324.jpg>
> >
> > I've met many roosters who were more skittish.
> >
> > As I was taking this picture, it's nearly full-frame, there was the
> > constant
> > sound of shot-guns being fired on a trap shooting range to the
> > south within easy
> > sight. It was the base for, yes, of course, a pheasant club!
> >
> > Later on we found another but he was in bad shape - I think West
> > Nile had hit
> > him. He walked listlessly, his tail feathers were partially gone.
> > He hid along a
> > fence-line:
> >
> > <http://www.adambridge.com/Photos/2006/02/05/_L3U9341.jpg>
> >
> > Just up the road this jack-rabbit, I'll leave it to those steeped
> > in the lore of
> > such things to identify the species. He watched warily as I snapped
> > these two:
> >
> > <http://www.adambridge.com/Photos/2006/02/05/_L3U9342.jpg>
> >
> > His profile just before he took flight:
> >
> > <http://www.adambridge.com/Photos/2006/02/05/_L3U9343.jpg>
> >
> > Further down the road I found this vast snaking pipeline, draining
> > land north of
> > our road into the wetlands. The entire area is administered to
> > control salinity
> > in the wetlands and tulle marshes. I believe this represents a
> > portion of the
> > work. Cows roam the field through which this fast serpent wends:
> >
> > <http://www.adambridge.com/Photos/2006/02/05/_L3U9346-bw.jpg>
> >
> > We saw four different ring-necked pheasants during our drive today
> > - none of
> > which were in the least bit alarmed. In the autumn there are NOT so
> > easy to
> > approach.
> >
> > There is another kind of farming in this area as well: wind farms.
> > Old wind
> > turbines, the bane of raptors with their fast-turning blades, are
> > being replaced
> > with new larger ones whose blades make long, slow, stately arcs
> > across the sky
> > as they generate their power.
> >
> > I liked very much the reflections in this vernal pool. A few months
> > from now it
> > will be gone leaving only a damp patch of wild flowers. The
> > hillside will turn
> > golden as the wheat matures, hawks will circle looking for ground
> > squirrels and
> > other rodents.
> >
> > <http://www.adambridge.com/Photos/2006/02/05/_L3U9354.jpg>
> > <http://www.adambridge.com/Photos/2006/02/05/_L3U9358.jpg>
> >
> > All of the animal images were made with the 560 Telyt and Canon 1Ds
> > Mk II. I
> > hope the images don't appear to be made of silly putty. ;-}
> >
> > The landscapes were made with the 24-70 F2.8L Canon zoom.
> >
> > I also took along an M6 and will have a different interpretation of
> > the pipeline
> > and perhaps a stand of windmills both very old and very new to show
> > in a few
> > days.
> >
> > Comments are welcome and invited.
> >
> > Adam Bridge
> >
> >
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