Love this one, Fred. Those old Spotties and Taks are capable of taking wonderful shots. Of course, they have to be in the hands of skilled photographers, at opportune moments like this to do their stuff.
Just beautiful.
thanks, frank
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From: Fred Widall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PAW: Above the clouds. Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 21:39:37 -0500 (EST)
In February 2002 my wife & I had the great good forture to visit the Hawaiian islands. We celebrated my wife's birthday watching the sun set from the top of Mauna Kea, on the Big Island. We were at an altitude of approx 14,000 feet, up in the thin air above the clouds. I got some great shots including this one of Japan's Subaru observatory.
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2165733
The summit of Mauna Kea is home to perhaps the world's most useless road sign. To reach the summit you drive up a unpaved, rough, steep, winding, and dangerous gravel road, with sheer drops at every curve. Then as you start down from the summit there is a road sign which says "Warning, Hazardous Road" - DUH !!! I think you'd have to be particularly unobservant to have missed that fact on the way up..... but hey, thanks for telling me.
Hope you like the shot.
This was certainly the most unusual place I've ever taken photographs. What's yours ???
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