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thewayneThese are recycled from previous posts. Right now, it's brown. It snowed last week Friday and Saturday was absolutely frelling gorgeous! There had been rain overnight that had frozen on the trees, and as my wife drove me to the airport, the sun was low enough in the sky that everything was shimmering! Sadly, it wasn't practical to stop and take pix: after a certain point on the road down the mountain, there are no safe non-emergency points to pull off.
On to the pix! Most of these are click to embiggen.
This was uploaded December 28 last year, when a big storm that hit right after Christmas: we got about 3' of snow in 18 hours. Sort of a mini-blizzard. This is a photo that I would encourage you to click on to zoom and fill your screen, it has some details that I think really pop at max magnification. They shut down the road that comes up the mountain to Cloudcroft: the snow plows couldn't keep up. The next day the storm had ended, the snow plows cleared the road, all was well.
I like this one. The way the wind blew the snow and rain into it and how it froze makes it pretty. There's also multiple layers involved in both the branches and the high shutter speed catching snow falling in front of the branches.
This isn't a snow shot per se, but it is a storm shot. This is a familiar view seen in several of my landscapes and some of my sunsets, taken from the Mexican Canyon Trestle Overlook just below Cloudcroft. I shot this in 2015, but didn't realize it was an HDR. I spent some time processing it about two months ago and absolutely love what I got out of it! There was a very similar effect this year with a snow storm that came in and filled the valley below the mountaintop, but the overlook was snowed in and we couldn't stop.
Whole bunch more under the cut.
This is a stitch of five frames shot late December 2018, just below the half-way point on the road to Cloudcroft, looking North. VERY low cloud level! The sun was actually below the horizon and I was shooting in bright twilight, but I got the shot and I like it.
Still late December 2018. I'd long cancelled our satellite TV in favor of our Apple TV and streaming, but AT&T/DirecTV didn't want the transponder or dish back, so it's sat there getting weathered upon. I pulled the cables out of the wall so that a lightning strike on the dish wouldn't be dangerous inside the house.
Shoveling the snow off the front porch, I was amused by seeing the hat on our fake owl. It was 18f out, or about -8C.
This is an old photo from over a decade ago, back when we had a rear deck. It collapsed in '11? or so. Apparently we had a lot of snow that year. :-). After the snow cleared the following spring and we were able to inspect the damage, it was apparent that the deck was not properly constructed. The vertical posts that supported the deck were not connected to the horizontal beams of the deck - the deck just sat freely on the posts! So as the load grew, the vertical posts bowed until they snapped and the whole thing went. Had they been secured properly, they might have been able to take more load and it could have survived.
This is a bunch from late January 2017, mostly front yard and back yard, before I learned the 'click to embiggen' HTML code method.
On to the pix! Most of these are click to embiggen.
This was uploaded December 28 last year, when a big storm that hit right after Christmas: we got about 3' of snow in 18 hours. Sort of a mini-blizzard. This is a photo that I would encourage you to click on to zoom and fill your screen, it has some details that I think really pop at max magnification. They shut down the road that comes up the mountain to Cloudcroft: the snow plows couldn't keep up. The next day the storm had ended, the snow plows cleared the road, all was well.
I like this one. The way the wind blew the snow and rain into it and how it froze makes it pretty. There's also multiple layers involved in both the branches and the high shutter speed catching snow falling in front of the branches.
This isn't a snow shot per se, but it is a storm shot. This is a familiar view seen in several of my landscapes and some of my sunsets, taken from the Mexican Canyon Trestle Overlook just below Cloudcroft. I shot this in 2015, but didn't realize it was an HDR. I spent some time processing it about two months ago and absolutely love what I got out of it! There was a very similar effect this year with a snow storm that came in and filled the valley below the mountaintop, but the overlook was snowed in and we couldn't stop.
Whole bunch more under the cut.
This is a stitch of five frames shot late December 2018, just below the half-way point on the road to Cloudcroft, looking North. VERY low cloud level! The sun was actually below the horizon and I was shooting in bright twilight, but I got the shot and I like it.
Still late December 2018. I'd long cancelled our satellite TV in favor of our Apple TV and streaming, but AT&T/DirecTV didn't want the transponder or dish back, so it's sat there getting weathered upon. I pulled the cables out of the wall so that a lightning strike on the dish wouldn't be dangerous inside the house.
Shoveling the snow off the front porch, I was amused by seeing the hat on our fake owl. It was 18f out, or about -8C.
This is an old photo from over a decade ago, back when we had a rear deck. It collapsed in '11? or so. Apparently we had a lot of snow that year. :-). After the snow cleared the following spring and we were able to inspect the damage, it was apparent that the deck was not properly constructed. The vertical posts that supported the deck were not connected to the horizontal beams of the deck - the deck just sat freely on the posts! So as the load grew, the vertical posts bowed until they snapped and the whole thing went. Had they been secured properly, they might have been able to take more load and it could have survived.
This is a bunch from late January 2017, mostly front yard and back yard, before I learned the 'click to embiggen' HTML code method.
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Date: 2019-12-07 09:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-12-07 09:13 pm (UTC)Yeah, with me coming from Phoenix, it's been an experience!
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Date: 2019-12-07 09:32 pm (UTC)I also like the critter shots, particularly the one of my poodle against the fence. It amuses me to see how off-white he actually is. Thank you!
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Date: 2019-12-07 11:18 pm (UTC)I started this hobby in my sophomore year in high school.... It actually predates me getting in to gaming!
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Date: 2019-12-07 10:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-12-07 11:21 pm (UTC)The poodle is Dante. When we adopted him from Arizona Poodle Rescue, he was 1 year old, and his name was - drum roll, please - Puppy. Completely unacceptable. Aside from loving to bark, he's a wonderful boy. He's now 8 y's/o, can't do the long bike rides like he used to, but boy - still no problem cranking out 95 db for an hour! Our other poodle is Charlie, full AKC name Desert Oasis Charlie Brown, and our blue tick coon hound is Rupert.
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Date: 2019-12-08 11:20 am (UTC)The poodle- Is this a Magic Eye thing because I’m just not focusing well this morning?
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Date: 2019-12-08 06:52 pm (UTC)That's about what we're getting now.
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Date: 2019-12-08 09:23 pm (UTC)Nice deer though.
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Date: 2019-12-08 09:49 pm (UTC)I have a 4x8' window next to my computer, where I eat breakfast in the AM. It's always nice to see critters out my front window in the morning.