Mother Nature greeted us with another winter storm overnight, dropping 3-7 inches of snow followed by sleet and now freezing rain. It's what's referred to as a "wintery mix" and typically signals a slow morning commute, increased car accidents, and results in very heavy oatmeal-consistency snow to shovel. I do hope Mother Nature is aware that the Vernal Equinox is at 7:02 AM tomorrow morning, EDT. (11:02 UTC.) I would really like to be able to retire these two containers of Ice Melt after tomorrow. We've had enough snow for one season.
To setup this shot, I placed a brown microfleece blanket over the background to eliminate any distractions. Two clamp lights were used with 40 watt Phillips natural light incandescent bulbs. The base is a small carpet that is used to catch the scattering calcium chloride pellets.
Post processing started with a warm tone filter in Topaz B&W FX. I then adjusted color sensitivity sliders, adaptive exposure, boost black, boost white, protect highlights, regions, details, and detail boost. A levels adjustment and sepia photo philter were added in PSE.
we've been getting short bursts of spring then it turns cold again
I really hope its finally here to stay now although we had a vicious thunderstorm last night and I heard there was hail, still though nothing like what you're getting.
March 19th, 2013
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I really hope its finally here to stay now although we had a vicious thunderstorm last night and I heard there was hail, still though nothing like what you're getting.