Interesting area with a lot of texture very well caught. Cool and inviting considering today's 100F in the Sacramento Valley.
Jack --- On Sun, 7/4/10, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Larry Colen <[email protected]> > Subject: Love Creek > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Sunday, July 4, 2010, 12:53 PM > A couple of days ago, I went for a > bike ride up Love Creek, a couple of miles from my > house. Back in January of 1982, it was the scene of a > fatal mudslide: > http://mindwrecker.blogspot.com/2009/02/ben-lomond-ca-love-creek-mudslide.html > > I hadn't been up there in ages, and one of the things I > found was a little monument to a couple of young boys that > perished in the slide: > http://www.examiner.com/x-46441-Santa-Cruz-Mountains-Examiner~y2010m4d28-If-the-mountains-could-speak-Love-Creek-tragedy-leaves-legacy-of-love > > I got a few decent photos of the creek and the monument, > and a couple of blurry shots of some deer that I came across > on my ride home: > http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157624419996154/ > comments on them are welcome, but this post is more about > the interesting story than the photos. I think that this is > probably my best photo of the set, even if it doesn't show > all of the context: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/4760540179/ > > When I was processing my photos, I was surprised to see how > sharp this shot at 1/2 second turned out, considering that I > had neither tripod nor monopod. > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/4760536751/ > It's truly amazing what image stabilization can do. > Here's a 100% crop of a section of the creek bed: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/4760537023/ > > Shot with the 18-250 at 18mm, wide open at ISO 200 on the > K-x. > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] > sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
