I assume that the rounded little things are the ricocheting hail after it pummels the surface. What was your shutter speed? I suppose that we could then calculate the velocity of those hail stones (good PHYS 101 question). Everyong always reports "golf-ball" sized hail. I've never seen anything bigger than green-pea-sized hail. If you get any golf-ball sized hail, photograph it for me. ;-) Jeffery Smith New Orleans, LA http://www.400tx.com http://400tx.blogspot.com/ -----Original Message----- From: leica-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:leica-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark Bohrer Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 11:56 PM To: paw@xxxxxxxxxxxx; digitalusersgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: leica@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Raise a little hail... Intense concentration usually gets the job done, to the exclusion of everything else. But there was this tapping one morning... it sounded like crows stomping on the roof! When it became a blast of machine guns, I grabbed the camera and went outside to see: http://tinyurl.com/22nrnr All comments welcome. Mark Bohrer Wildlife Photography on the Urban Edge www.mountain-and-desert.com ========================================================= To Unsubscribe: Send email to leica-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. The acknowledgment that you then receive MUST be replied to per instructions. You may also log in to the Web interface to unsubscribe. ========================================================To Unsubscribe: Send email to leica-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. The acknowledgment that you then receive MUST be replied to per instructions. You may also log in to the Web interface to unsubscribe.