October 10, 2009 - Snowstorm
by Benjamin Tillotson
Monday, October 12, 2009, 9:19pm
Much of the northern plains recieved early snowfall this year with some areas like North Platte breaking some records for the month of October with over 13". I wasn't expecting anything big but was suprised to wake up on Saturday to several inches on the ground and still snowing. I think we ended up with about 3 -4 inches.
I went west of town to some hills to see what I could find.
Everything had a thin coating of ice. I think things were warm enough at first to melt the snow but froze later on.
I'm sure a lot of farmers weren't happy with how things ended up. It looked like most corn had not been harvested yet.
Its always hard captureing snow flakes in the air but I found the best way was to use the 85mm at f/1.8 and a high shutter speed. The large aperature helps to Isolate the flakes. f/1.8 1/800 sec. ISO 100
This is at the north channel of the Platte. There was still a lot of green stuff around.
Remnants of the burned bridge.
I have never seen poisen ivy in snow before. Usually its mostly gone by the time we start getting snow. Anyway, I'm probably going to get it now that I got so close to it :P. Thats what I call staring death in the face!
This is jumping ahead a couple days to Monday morning at the south channel of the Platte river. It had snowed agian and I was hoping for some more good snow landscapes. I was also looking for some good fall color to go with it, something we don't always get aound here.
A few deer crossing the trail.
This is about as good of "fall color" as I could find at the river. :P The photo's a little shaky perhaps but thats as good as I could do hand held in the low light. I just thought the snow on the leaves looked cool.
Because of the cold temperatures on saturday some trees just seemed to dump all there leaves at once.
Finally some real fall color! I found this maple tree at cottonmill park with a little snow on the leaves that hadn't melted yet.
There was more than one maple tree in the park. They really stand out against the seeming lack of color in most of the other trees around.
Got to meet this alien from another planet. :P Seriously, though, there heads look unnatural.
Mon, Oct 12, 2009, 10:18pmRachel CNice pictures! I think my favorites are the ones of the maple trees. I love when the leaves turn such beautiful shades of red and yellow. :)
Mon, Oct 12, 2009, 11:01pmLinda BGreat job, Benjamin!!! I too, love the maples!! And, the fence going uphill and the deer -- but ALL are beautiful!
Tue, Oct 13, 2009, 11:43amLesleyMy favorite are definitely the fall leaves in their firey shades with the snow on them....just beautiful!
Wed, Oct 14, 2009, 11:41amMichael MI really like the first few telephoto landscapes. They give you an impressive perspective.
Wed, Oct 14, 2009, 4:27pmSarah I really like the 3rd picture!!
Mon, Oct 26, 2009, 4:15pmAddieThose are all really neat pictures!
