Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/06/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bob: Truly lovely shots. It's hard to beat Big Sur. I walked up one of those trails while a young Marine attending Language School in Monterey. Sat on a redwood log near the falls and totally lost track of time. Of course, it's hard to beat them MF negs, either... Bob On Jun 22, 2008, at 7:59 PM, Bob Adler wrote: After Yosemite in April/May, attention turned back to Big Sur. About an hour south of the town of Big Sur is a California State Park, Lime Kiln. If you drive in and walk down to the ocean, it's completely uninspiring. The first time we did that and just got back in the vehicle and continued on. Next time, on a tip from a co-worker, we went the other way, deep into a beautiful redwood forest with at least 3 major streams. One ends at a 100 foot high waterfall which I didn't shoot. It's not a regular waterfall with a couple of torrents showering down; it has about 100 little falls that fan out from the top so the bottom of the falls is as wide as the falls are high. Jim Brick has some good shots of it, after climbing like a mountain goat which I wasn't about to do. Another stream goes up to the lime kilns. These are mammoth kilns built in the late 1800s to extract lime from the limestone. There are 3 of them, each about 30 - 40 feet high; steel turrets falling apart in these beautiful overgrown redwood forests. How they built these monstrosities way up on this hill in the middle of nowhere and how they got the lime stones up and resultant lime back down is beyond me. The third major stream is just a beautiful walk going nowhere; my kind of place... http://www.raflexions.com/LKP Hope you enjoy these. Certainly worth a walk if you're ever in the area, Bob P.S. - Tech stuff: Hasselblad (flex and 203), Velvia 50 and FP4 taken with various combinations of apprx. 40lbs of gear muled around on my back... Bob Adler Palo Alto, CA http://www.raflexions.com _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information