Post-Blizzard Golden Hour

In what has been an incredibly snowy winter, this latest blizzard brought well over a foot and a half to the Boston area. Most people spent the day shoveling out... again. It was well below zero and the snow banks are more than 10 feet now. With all of that though, the sun came out this afternoon and threw some great colors and shadows on the wind-whipped drifts.

Winter Drive

So, it's been 5 days of pic of the day (#potd2014)! I've quickly realized this is going to clog up the blog with an absurd number of posts. For the few who might be interested, I'll be uploading the pics to this set on Flickr here. Maybe I'll do some recaps from time to time here on the blog as well.

More to the point, today's pic is some winter driving.

Blizzard of 2013 - Nemo!

Let me just first start off by saying I love snow! So I was very excited by the recent Nemo blizzard, despite the 4+ hours spent shoveling this morning and afternoon. We got between 24 - 30 inches here and even more from blowing snow into drifts. I'm currently listening to an excavator clear snow from our parking lot outside.

Below are some shots from late yesterday afternoon as well as this morning in the aftermath of the storm. A few are HDR - high dynamic range. Some consumer cameras have this feature automatically, but the more sophisticated semi-pro and pro-level cameras do it by manually setting the exposure bracketing for the scene, then taking 3 to 5 pictures. Afterwards, you combine them in Photoshop. The way some photographers apply HDR is a bit overdone and unrealistic, but if moderately applied, you can get some cool surreal scenes.

These pictures are also on Flickr here.