They called it Winter Storm Olympia and Miss Raider didn't mind it at all......almost. It started the evening of February 15th. Huge flakes of snow quickly covering everything in sight. Old Man Winter continued bombarding us throughout the night. I measured almost 10 inches of snow on our table on the back deck. I couldn't resist making the little tag to tie around the ruler. So then, … [Read more...]
Winter Nest
I just happened to be in the upstairs bedroom today, taking advantage of the light coming through the window while shooting for the "floral - top down" assignment in The Studio | Online, and took a few minutes to look at the view outside........not much of a view......part of our roof but it was covered with snow and then I saw it.......a squirrel's winter nest high up in one of the Maple … [Read more...]
Morning after Winter Wonderland
I wanted to post a couple images of what we woke up to AFTER the Winter Wonderland shots from lastnight. I took both a portrait and landscape image. This is how much snow had accumulated on our deck rail. The dark areas are just what is showing of our hedges in the background. The limbs from the tree I shot lastnight are hanging down so far, just a bit of the hedges peep … [Read more...]
Winter Wonderland
I couldn't resist posting some more wintry images. It's been snowing since 10AM here and I decided to pull some nighttime snow photos. You'll see I got a couple very different results and I think the reason is that the porch light was on behind me. It was snowing so hard, I wanted to stay under the overhang with the camera....ON the tripod. In all three images, I was using my Tamron 28-300 … [Read more...]
More November Snow
I'm absolutely loving this snow we're getting. Makes me want to just go ahead and decorate for Christmas. I'm sure some people already have. I normally wait til the day after Thanksgiving and take photos of some of my favorite decorations as I go. We're supposed to get snow tonight and into tomorrow. They originally said 2 to 4 inches but we've already got that much and it's still snowing. … [Read more...]