[Leica] Great Sand Dunes National Park

[hlritter at bex.net (Howard Ritter)]

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