>From: Gregg Iverson
>
>BTW, I never considered the Bay area as Northern California!
>
>gregg
>
I know some twisted people that consider this part of the country (Seattle
metropolitan area) Northern California.
Glad I slowed down and reread this sentence. I thought it said some
twisted people live in the Seattle metro area. Nooo, that couldn't be
true. Maybe Portland though. :-)
And when I lived in the Dakotas, it took me quite some time to get used to
them referring to the region as the Northwest ???
Guess it was North and West of Chicago and such places.
Much earlier in the history of the US, the area north and west of the Ohio
was called the Northwest. Horace Greely once encouraged a young man who
wrote to him on where to go to make his fortune, "Go West, young man, go
West!" He was actually referring to the copper country in the western part
of the Upper Penensula of Michigan.
I never got used to it being called that either. There still is a company
called NorthWest Fasteners in South West Michigan. Fastenating place to
browse.
Because of the high humidity, I never got excited about having a long
lens. The air would degrade the sharpness and contrast on anything above
about 135mm to the point I was unhappy with the results. I had not tried
such a lens for close-up work, however.
gregg
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