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Skiing with My Camera: Ouzels, Snow and Blackbirds

A couple days ago while skiing I saw four Water Ouzels, (also know as American Dippers) hanging out together in one of the irrigation ditches. One of them was plunging its’ head into the water looking for food. Dippers are “equipped with an extra eyelid called a nictitating membrane” that allow them to “see underwater, …
Skiing with My Camera: Snow and Ice
Walking & Skiing with My Camera: Frost, Snow and Branch Lines

Last week the snow melted out of the trees and we had some hoar frost days. Another transformation is in process. It has been snowing continuously for two days where I live with my family up on a hill in Northwest Montana. Small steady snow flakes keep falling—enveloping our home in a sheltering quiet. I …
Walking with My Camera: Ice Silvers and Just Enough Snow to Ski
Walking with My Camera: Watery Snow Folding

Earlier today big snow flakes were drifting in rotating swirls. The photo above was my attempt, shooting through the window, to capture the feeling of the dense snow fall. Skiing along the irrigation ditch near our home a couple days ago, there was a place where collected snow was being folded by the water — …
Skiing with My Camera: Blur, Edges and Bone

2/24/18 Since my last post―some days there was sun, some days chilling wind and one day this mountain was like a mirage―the lines softened as if it was barely there. It snowed more. In places the shape of the snow has a quiet sense of movement―a hard to describe undulating stillness. Montana has had some …
Skiing with My Camera: Sun and Snow
Walking with My Camera: Snow Light and Catkins
Walking with My Camera: The Light Isn’t Gone

1/17/18 Below the inversion layer it has been mostly gray for days. On Monday morning the sun was breaking through the fog. I grabbed my camera and went outside to capture the trees standing in the misty brightness. Traipsing about didn’t yield much photographically but the light and the sun warmth entered my skin and …
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