Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/06/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The second has a nice lushness to it. Jim 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 >