road trip yersterday

Road Trip yesterday. Hunt for more wildflowers. Bob Adler and I shot film but took digisnaps of where we were and what we did - sort of.
Left home at 6:30am, drove to King City, pit stop, drove on to Paso Robles. Headed east from Paso Robles for fifteen or so miles, north to San Miguel. From there, it's north on Indian Valley Road, which turns into Peach Tree Road, which turns into Hiway 25. All of this is country road through the foothills east of the Salinas valley. This is the best wildflower area in the Salinas valley.
We went down lots of side roads, some dirt, others barely graded. The weather was 85 and a slight breeze. Deep blue sky. We had a flat way out in the boonies (you can see Bob's Lexus Suv in one pix) and trying to decipher the @#$%& manual on how to jack-up the @#$%& suv (a billion @#$%& pounds!) and change a tire (100 @#$%& pounds itself!) was an exercise in almost futility! Took over an hour! But Bob succeeded! :-)
Got home at 9:30pm. Long day. Fun day. But discovered, after getting home, that my digisnapper was set on ISO 1000 all day. Crap! Then remembered that my daughter shot a wedding with it a couple of weeks ago, and stupid me didn't check it. I've always had it on 200. But amazingly enough... they all look OK! And since I was hand holding the digisnapper, it's probably a good thing it was set on 1000! Turns out that ISO 1000 and a full frame sensor seems to work out OK. Big 8.5 micron pixels.
Anyway, boB digisnapped with his new Leica M8. Of course, no pix of us shooting film. Just digisnappin' each other. 

http://www.visualimpressions.com/Road_Trip_4-11-08/index.html

:-)

Jim

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