Outdoor Ontario
Off Topic => Anything Goes => Topic started by: Charline on January 13, 2024, 11:29:40 PM
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The trees in my neighbourhood were covered with the stunningly beautiful frost at 9:15 pm last night. I made some short clips with my cell phone. This is one of them:
https://youtube.com/shorts/Vmk2y8FV_Uc (https://youtube.com/shorts/Vmk2y8FV_Uc)
When I returned to photograph them with my camera and tripod around 11:30 pm. There was wonderland no more. The rain washed all the snow and frost away.
:'( :'( :'(
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Hi Charline.
Very pretty. Nice video! :)
The other night I was looking out the window at snow coming down big time and accumulating quickly, snowplows were out and about. Then the rain washed it all away. As you said it was "wonderland" no more.
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We all seem so easily reset, literally rebooted at the commencement of every winter to delve into and then passionately appreciate with explosive delight the first snowfall, first hoarfrost, first ice storm. These are all forms of inclemency that cause groans and consternation later in winter when the cost/benefit analysis has been scrutinized: shovelling, backache, rust, slip & fall, salt stains, more rust. Yet, when first we perceive it, the snow is so beautiful and begs to be photographed. Get the tripod, remember how to deploy it, ouch, not that way you idiot, need a lens hood to keep the snow off the lens even though it never achieves that function because it's meant to keep out the sun, not the flakes. Maybe wait until daylight and forget about time exposure. What if it melts? Will it be sunny in the morning? Probably not. There's a lot to think about. Maybe I should look up to make sure an overburdened tree limb is not about to collapse with me standing under it. Come March, we should all be much less enchanted by it all.
I missed the bright sunny New Year's Day that we usually have. This time it was dismal because it was dismal before January 1st and dismal afterwards as well. Maybe that's why we take those photos. We need to be reminded of the snowfalls that did seem magical and part of the stage setting for a fairy tale in order to compensate, to a degree, for those that fizzle.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-L66ZL9d/0/7d129a7c/X2/Snowy%20street-X2.jpg) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-L66ZL9d/A)
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Jo-Anne, thanks for your kind words.
SS, very beautiful shot! I gather that it was Petticoat, wasn't it?
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No it wasn't. The composition was taken while looking down the street trying to capture the meandering melt trail. The wood lot is on the right side of the photo (no houses allowed). I have not visited Petticoat Creek since mid-fall when the migration was nearing its final stage. It was a fairly decent location in August and early September for juvenile warblers and it satisfied the most important criteria of all ... I could reach the site with only a ten minute drive. No wasted fuel and no wasted time. Just like the bank robbers that were seeking professional help for their collective addiction to theft. They pull up in front of the psychiatrist's office, one of them stays in the car as a getaway driver, the other two review their plan before exiting the car. "Look, this is how it's going to work. We get in, we get help, we get out fast." Nuff said.