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These 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.
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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.
( Read more... )
