As Larry mentioned in an earlier post, It's a bit closer to where I live
than it is to Larry's house.
This was taken late yesterday afternoon:
http://panix.com/~johnf/temp/LomaFire.jpg
Here's another shot taken about five minutes earlier, showing a detail
of the mountain peak to the right (whick I think may be Loma Prieta of
1989 earthquake fame):
http://panix.com/~johnf/temp/LomaFireDetail.jpg
Ten minutes earlier still that plume of smoke hadn't even been there;
just the first little wisps of smoke on this side of the hill.
Loma Prieta is about ten miles from where I took those photographs;
my house is about 1.5 miles closer to the fire (just about straight
ahead in the main photograph, this side of the brown hillside that
you can see between the trees). There's a pretty wide flat valley
just beyond those brown hills, though, and it's mostly ranchland,
so it's not likely that we're going to have any real problems.
Technical stuff - the first shot was taken with the 60-250 all the
way at the wide end (on a K-5); the detail shot was taken with the
same lens at the other end of the zoom range, this time also using
the HD1.4x adapter I just recently accquired from Stan Halpin.
There's also a 1920x1200 version of the original shot here:
http://panix.com/~johnf/temp/LomaFireHD.jpg
On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 09:28:55AM -0400, ann sanfedele wrote:
> whats more important is how far the fire has spread - hope you can breathe
> and it doesn't get any closer to you , Larry
>
> ann
>
>
> On 9/27/2016 10:05 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
> > I don't know how far news has spread, but there's a pretty big fire
> > going in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
> >
> > http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/09/26/loma-fire-map-santa-cruz-mountains/
> >
> >
> > http://www.fire.ca.gov/current_incidents/incidentdetails/Index/1457
> >
> > It's currently at 2200 acres and 10% containment. Someone got an
> > awesome photo of it from the Santa Cruz Pier last night, with the
> > boardwalk lit up in the foreground. Unfortunately, that wasn't me.
> >
> >
>
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