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The temperature inversions in our valley have one positive affect: some incredible hoar frost (radiation frost) builds up. As I wait for ice and joints to thaw, and fish to move, I walk the valley. Exchanging fly rod and flies for tripod and camera, I stay as close to water as I can. |
| Stalking scenes of snow and frost, colors appear in unlikely places, peeking out from lacy beards and brows. |  |
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Waiting for spring’s warmth, buds are yet to form. Holdovers from autumn curl and rattle their bones in the breeze in place of buds. |
Gallery of Pics.
Thanks, Scott for your timely comment. I am a reader of your blog also. Say, if you want to add my blog to your list, I’d be good with that.
Thanks for swinging by and dropping a comment Steve. I’ve got you added to the list.
nice work today, winter’s not all bad now is it?
Yeah Mike, thanks for coming by with that comment–it really cheers me up
. BTW Snow bike: it’s called a snowmobile (except by the slightly more redneck element who like to call it a snowmachine). And no, I don’t have one. I did used to downhill ski, but that’s a bit too expensive these days. I do occasionally get out and x-country ski.
well looks like the snowmobilemachine is now the old skool way of playin’ in the snow, the kids these days are rockin even fatter tires for the white stuff. Who knew?!
http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=589584
Pugs. Well I’ll be…who wouldda thunk it!
Scott,
nice stuff. I particularly like the pic of the wheat (maybe) with all the hoar frost filagree.
Hit the SF yesterday and got skunked. Now I have a bad cold.
Skunked and a cold? Double whammy! Sorry to hear about that.
Let’s see…a hidden prediction of how many fish we will catch next time at Bonneville Creek. ONE fish for every word you typed…95…very average prediction don’t you think. All the pictures are just a great decoy. Good one Emerson. I going to start following the word patterns more closely. GO AGGIES !!!
Your photos are absolutely gorgeous. I need to get out and practice my photography skills!
Greg, It helps when you live in a beautiful place. Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment!
Definitely true. I absolutely love living in Cache Valley.
Some nice stuff Scott. What kind of camera are you using these days? I am just about to bite the bullet and spring for a new digital SLR. The point & shoot does a pretty good job, but after using a 35mm for so many years I miss the capabilities of an SLR.
Thanks Harry. I’m shooting with an Olympus E-510. I spent a year looking for something in my price range (under $800) and bought it in 2008. The E-510 came with 2 lenses (14-42 & 40-150). It has image stabilization built into the camera body instead of the lenses, reducing the price and weight of lenses. It was also one of the first with live image view (point and shoots come with this standard, but many people are surprised when the expensive dSLR doesn’t have a view of the scene in the big window in the back). It also has an interesting feature that shakes the dust off the mirrors every time it shuts off. Anyhow, for the price, it had a lot of features. Although not as “popular” as Nikon or Canon, it’s a quality camera. Probably the only disadvantage I’ve seen is that there isn’t nearly the lens selection as Canon and Nikon. But I didn’t plan on buying a lot, so it didn’t matter to me. Also, my first SLR was an Olympus OM-G back in the early 80’s. I used to develop and enlarge my own b&w film and prints using that camera. You can buy a new E-510 now for $620 at Amazon.
Kind of the same price range I have been looking at. Canon has some really nice stuff out today as does Nikon that I have been looking at.
A friend of mine just got a Canon point and shoot with 15 megapixels and a 20X optical zoom that takes really good pics for under $400, but still is really slow 1 frame at a time. Just not what I want for wildlife pics.
My first 35mm was a Pentex Spotmatic I got back in the late 60’s, then I moved up to a Minolta 700 with some auto programs that took really good pics-just too hard to find film these days so I guess anew DSLR is in the works.
I have a Canon Digital Rebel, and I’m pretty happy with it. Mine is an older model with only 8 megapixels, but I really like it.
The Rebel was on my short list of cameras while making my decision.
Nice photos, Scott! That frost is pretty cool. My favorite in the first curled leaves photo.
MDW
Thanks for dropping by FR!
I like that first curled leaves one as well. We have a local photo guild that meets each month. We submit 3 pics and a judge “scores” the photos then we talk about them at the meeting. That was one of the ones I submitted (got a 60 out of 60 from the judge). I hate the conditions that lead to that kind of frost (it was -10 F the previous night of the photos and 9 F at the time of shooting), but some very cool possibilities.
Considering the drudgery of winter and how much I loathe it, I thought the moments you captured in these photos are among your all time best.
I seriously enjoy your blog Scott.
Thanks man.
Boone, I’ve been working on a “secret” project on my site for the past week or so (that’s why I’m so slow to answer you) and I just got it going. We finally have a beautiful day in our valley today–winter seems to get longer each year. I’m glad you liked the pics. Take care!