Re: road trip yersterday

Gas: $130.00
4 new tires, mounted, balanced and aligned: $1,000
M8, lenses, memory cards, filters etc.: (don't even go there with me...)
Jim Chimping: PRICELESS!
http://raflexions.com/Leica/content/L1000324_large.html

Other images I liked from the day preceed and proceed this one.
Bob
 
Bob Adler
Palo Alto, CA
http://www.raflexions.com



----- Original Message ----
From: Jim Brick <jim@xxxxxxxxx>
To: leica@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 5:40:43 PM
Subject: 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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