This was Jan. 10 at 5am, the morning before the full moon.
Had my days mixed up. I was planning to photograph the full moon setting at sunrise but the bright light of the moon woke me at 5am and I realized I was a day early. I went out and made a few images anyway. The next day, too warm and lazy to drag myself out in the cold, I only peeked from under the blankets at the moon setting at sunrise outside my window.
On the nut feeder this morning:
And, backlit on the same feeder this evening:
Outside thinking I’d photograph a tall tree leaning with the wind, I looked up to see a long roll of clouds that stretched across the sky like a giant frayed rope.
Braced against the strong gusts (forecast to 80 mph) I used a wide angle lens and polarizing filter to capture several images in the few minutes available before the wind drove the clouds eastward and away.
The sign in the foreground declares, “No Hunting”, but that’s exactly what I was doing – hunting images to capture.
A few days at our favorite hot springs in December yeilded the images below of the Chalk Cliffs, Mt. Princeton, plus a few more “riding shotgun” images – this time of South Park. Extremely low temps with wind and blowing snow made it too cold when I was there to do much photography. I didn’t get out of the hot outdoor pools, sauna, or my warm room in the lodge long enough to get the kind of captures I’d planned for this trip.
Note to Melissa, who feels cold when she views my winter images: This time it truly was cold![PSGallery=1ixe9akldc]
