Winter Offers the Determined Photographer its Unique Opportunities
© A. Mac/A.G.
© A. Mac/A.G.
Seems like only yesterday.
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nice shots. where was the colorado picture taken at amac?
Mary Lake, Peak to Peak Highway.
cool, the highway that's only open 3.5 months a year, at best ...
... so that means your picture was taken in the summer. I've seen it snow at that elevation in every month. usually it didn't stick to the ground, but it was snowing in the summer on the divide ...
Don’t remember for sure but it might have been May.
And good afternoon where I am now. Your three very wintery shots are scenes I enjoy to look at but no longer to experience., Here is a picture of the first day my wife had ever experienced snow. We had just been married and she moved up with me in my teacher's apartment in Zhengzhou, Henan Province.
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Her first snowman
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The view from our apartment:
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Something I'll never see again
Good evening here now..🦘
Not unique, just damn cold. View from the side porch of our house on Table Rock Lake, MO.
Now that you're in Florida, that could be something YOU'LL never see again.
Hopefully not, Buzz.
Arvo..mmmhhh... snow!!...
Ahh sun, sand and surf...
Sand snow man in summer...
Sand snow man in winter...
getting hit by a couple of sand snowballs wouldn't be much fun I reckon ...
Evening..we actually do that..there is a knack of making them..
Use wet sand form a ball about the size of a cricket/ baseball..
Then coat in dry sand to form a hard shell, then let rip...
Great fun is had by all until it gets in your eyes... that's the time to head to the water, wash it off and then...repeat..😊
then why aren't there more shot-put olympians from oz?
We prefer competing with sharks and beating the USA in swimming..😁
"Mr. Sandman, send me a dream..."
This is how Kobe handles his workday afternoon.
The office paludarium is getting really overgrown.
Pookie was sick and slept a lot this week, but he's doing better.
We don't get snow where I live. We haven't even had any rain so far this year so there is no snow in the mountains. Our daytime high temperature has been averaging between about 69-70. It's been down into the 40s the last few nights, though. Brr.
Some shots on the streets --
Fenced Off (© G. Gam)
Convertible (© G. Gam)
Driver's Side Mirror (© G. Gam)
Nice. I like the color grading. We will be under an extreme cold warning by 6pm tomorrow. Gale force winds and below 0 temps through tuesday. We don't have much snow though. We are somewhere around 23" under average snowfall so far this year.
I've never experienced that type of weather. I don't think I really want to. Many years ago I went to New York over New Year's to see what cold weather was like. It was unusually warm for New York that year and 65. I did see a couple of frozen lakes in the Hudson River Valley area which was pretty awesome. I'd never seen frozen lakes before and I've never seen any since.
My experience with snow on the ground is only two or three times I went to the mountains for the day to check it out. Some years we can see snow in the mountains around L.A. Not this year so far.
we're going to be sub zero for a few days here. to think that I used to install cable TV in those temps 40 years ago... yikes.
5 degrees here in chicago on monday, overnight temps going well below zero
that is air temperature, not wind chill. wind chill may go below -20 overnight on monday
people who live in these climates get used to it
huh? speak for yourself, I hate being in a frozen hell. although it is fun to watch drivers from warm states learn about physics the hard way. I used to send my mom pictures of vehicles with texas plates off the road and upside down.
I thought sub zero was only for refrigerators.
T-shirt weather?
as long as i dont get my tongue frozen to a lampost i'm good
it obviously needed salt ...
cold enough to make your 'nads retract into your body cavity ...
The older I get the more I'm over it. I still don't want to go the other extreme and live in AZ with my kid.
cool shots G2.
the last time I drove in LA, it was nightmarish. back in the early 80's, with a paper map. I helped a friend move out there to start his new job as a producer for ABC. we rolled in from vegas at midnight and I white knuckled it on a highway that seemed to be 10 lanes wide, in bumper to bumper traffic at 70+ mph. I took the wrong exit where multiple highways came together and it took over an hour to get going back in the right direction again. we got a room at the travel lodge in sherman oaks and were awakened at the crack of dawn by an earthquake. the place was violently shaking and we ran thru the doorway into the parking lot in our tighty whiteys, only to be met with uproarious laughter by those in the office that had witnessed our panicked horror. I really didn't want to be a concrete slab sandwich ...
Sounds like a great trip! I don't remember a significant earthquake in the early 80's. I live a few miles from Sherman Oaks. It must have been pretty minimal, but enough to scare an earthquake novice, I guess. Are you sure it wasn't just a heavy truck driving by on Ventura Blvd. that rattled the windows ?
When the traffic is "bumper to bumper" it's crawling along at low speeds, or stop and go. If it was 70+ mph there might have been a lot of cars, but that's flying.
sunday night traffic from vegas, and we were definitely not going 55 mph ...
we went to hermosa beach, drove up laurel canyon and some other main canyon road, down hollywood blvd, and I caught a red-eye at LAX that night back to denver on a big jet with 2 other passengers up front. I was reeking of skunk weed in the back row, very self conscious about it, and had a couple of gorgeous flight attendants sitting around me.
Did you run into Joni Mitchell?
no, but I saw enough to question the logic of cali building codes ...
Cantilevered houses hanging off the sides of steep mountains? No problem.
art-deco boxes suspended in a semi-arid tinderbox, in the mountains, in an earthquake zone ...
meh ...
spontaneous urban renewal lotto ...
Makes things exciting.
Morning...what can I say..
Going to be 27 here today... Celcius that is...
Perfect swimming weather...or Barbie weather...or just generally great weather..😁
where's the shrimp? or did you eat that already, you bloody little ripper ...
You mean a prawn!!!..
Flaming shrimp...next thing you will get getting the hemispheres mixed up again...
oh no, are you saying "shrimp on the barbie" is an american english idiom? what is my country's fascination with islanders, on the other side of the world at the bottom of the planet, that talk and drive like they're in a road warrior movie?
If you said you are going to throw a shrimp on the Barbie, you would end up on it..
Shrimp is American to the eyeballs...
Because we are simply the best... better than all the rest..
My island home, less politics, less BS and always ahead in time...
Can't get better than that..
bloody hell, next you'll tell me fosters isn't oz beer ...