[HUG ] Re: SV: IMG: Recent Trips
- From: Bob Adler <rgacpa@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: hasselblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:49:54 -0700 (PDT)
Thanks Tom.
Do you know the German word for a baby eagle? I've been told it's a dork :-)
Bob
Bob Adler
Palo Alto, CA
http://www.raflexions.com
----- Original Message ----
From: Tom Just Olsen <tjols@xxxxxxxxx>
To: hasselblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 8:40:05 AM
Subject: [HUG ] SV: IMG: Recent Trips
Bob (the Eagle),
I have been both to Big Sur and Lime Kiln. Very nice photos!
Regards Tom of Oslo
> From: Bob Adler [rgacpa@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 2008-06-23 04:54:29 CEST
> To: hasselblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [HUG ] IMG: Recent Trips
>
> 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
> 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 mamouth 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 monstrosoties way up on this
> hill in the middle of nowhere and how they got the lime stones 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: 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
>
>
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