A Snowy Day at Baha'i by taffy

A Snowy Day at Baha'i

With the snow, Junko and I thought it would be worth the risk to our cameras to take a quick ride to the Baha'i Temple to take pictures as both of our guys were hard at work and ignoring us. Unfortunately, when we got there Junko's camera battery was dead. So, she graciously waited for me to take a few shots and then we headed back to get her battery. By the time we got to the house, we'd both decided it was too cold and wet to go back. I'm glad to have gotten one that I liked!
Beautiful scene!
December 12th, 2016  
This is fantastic! Love the frosty tones in your processing. Fav.
December 12th, 2016  
Neat processing and interesting pov
December 12th, 2016  
Fabulous. Too bad for Junko though
December 12th, 2016  
Great processing and beautiful image!
December 12th, 2016  
Super, but poor Junko!
December 12th, 2016  
Creative processing to reduce the image to a pencil sketch. Fav
December 12th, 2016  
Beautiful B&W shot and I really like your processing. Sounds like you had a successful day.
December 12th, 2016  
Beautiful!
December 12th, 2016  
So pretty!
December 12th, 2016  
Love the way your editing makes it so beautifully artistic! Worth getting the camera a bit wet, right?
December 12th, 2016  
excellent shot and edit
December 12th, 2016  
Love it - fav
December 12th, 2016  
Wonderful image and processing...great composition
December 12th, 2016  
Like a pencil drawing. :) Lovely. Snowy!
December 12th, 2016  
Beautiful capture and editing
December 12th, 2016  
love your processing
December 12th, 2016  
Very artistic capture! It's just like a pencil etching. Beautiful.
December 12th, 2016  
Really cool processing, suit this scene very much.
December 12th, 2016  
Beautiful composition and processing - really suits the subject
December 12th, 2016  
Nice processing and composition
December 12th, 2016  
Worth the effort to get this shot
December 12th, 2016  
Beautiful clean lines love the composition and edit
December 12th, 2016  
Beautiful high key
December 12th, 2016  
This certainly is lovely and it was worth braving the elements for!
December 12th, 2016  
@jyokota a pity about your battery!
December 12th, 2016  
Fav. A gorgeous winter scene with the temple capturing the whole scene. Sorry for Junko but at least you got your shots.
December 12th, 2016  
Superb shot. Fav.

I've been reading about the severe weather. I have just missed it as I crossed the continent last week, and am now here in Australia. Fortunately, so far, missing the extreme heat that will cover much of the country tomorrow. SE Queensland seems to be in the "sweet spot" much of the time. Sort of around an aperture of f/8. :)
December 12th, 2016  
Very nice! I'm curious what you did to get this image. Great affect.
December 12th, 2016  
I like the white-out on top and bottom
December 12th, 2016  
@dide -- yes, it was. I have turned on my GPS on my camera a couple of months ago and the battery drains even when I'm not using it. I had just put a fresh battery and charger in a case to prepare for our next trip, and I should have put it in my camera!
December 12th, 2016  
Stunningly beautiful shot & process. @jyokota The cold doesn't help batteries either, does it. A spare in your warm pocket fro now on?? A lesson for all of us.
December 12th, 2016  
@special4k I did post processing with Silver Efex but don't remember exactly what I did in that program. Probably started with high contrast and then fiddled with the sliders, then imported back to LR to finish up tweaking it.
December 12th, 2016  
@frankhymus You were lucky to get away before the storms hit. Apparently ORD canceled over 1000 flights yesterday.
December 12th, 2016  
very nice effect and shot. Works so well
December 12th, 2016  
Great editing Taffy. It really suits the mood of the picture. Fav
December 12th, 2016  
Love it.
December 12th, 2016  
Beautifully captured and processed. Fav!! 😃
December 12th, 2016  
Lovely effect - makes a nice image.
December 12th, 2016  
Beautiful scene
December 12th, 2016  
I thought I recognised this. A lovely shot in the snow and I bet it's cold there. Funnily enough I emailed my images in for the next camera club competition today and included one of the temple but there were blue skies in mine. Fav for this lovely image that looks great in monochrome
December 12th, 2016  
This image brought back great memories, as Rosie @rosiekind says, what a contrast in weather!
The temple looks beautiful covered in snow
December 12th, 2016  
Great high key image, lovely contrasts and composition
December 12th, 2016  
Wonderful image, great processing.
December 12th, 2016  
Love the processing
December 12th, 2016  
beautiful temple - we have a Baha'i temple in Sydney - I have not been there for years - must take a drive :)
December 13th, 2016  
I like the building, the sky looks bleak.
December 13th, 2016  
I've just been reading about the latest Arctic Vortex. You must be a hardy lot in Chicago. Gorgous treatment of this delicately ornate building. Looks wonderfully mysterious.
December 13th, 2016  
Looks extremely frosty! But lovely.
December 15th, 2016  
How absolutely magnificent! And to think that last spring I didn't think it couldn't be prettier than what we photographed then!
December 16th, 2016  
How wonderful to see this in winter and I think even more beautiful than when we saw it in sunshine and blue skies. Lovely memories Taffy!! Beautiful processing too!! Fav!!
December 16th, 2016  
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