Some shots of the white stuff

[Tami Martin]

Kansas is the middle of the Great American Desert. As such, we don't get a lot in the way of precipitation. Winters are usually cold and dry. But this year we've gotten a load of real snow (not just frozen rain!). I had to skip lunch to snap these while at work yesterday.

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[Jonathan Long]

Nice shots!

IF you had taken along a tripod....
you could have used a slow shutter speed and made that flowing water look like silk...

Jon

[Hans Deventer]

Very nice, Tami! And a good choice to turn them into black & whites

[Tami Martin]

Nice shots!

IF you had taken along a tripod....
you could have used a slow shutter speed and made that flowing water look like silk...

Jon

Yep...I thought about that. I'm hoping to get some more shots while I'm on vacation.

[Joel Merrill]

Nice shots!

IF you had taken along a tripod....
you could have used a slow shutter speed and made that flowing water look like silk...

Jon

Some of us like the crisp high speed shutter shots. I usually take both kinds. I love black & white! I forget it use it now that I've gone digital. I was looking at my old Yashica-Mat TLR the other day. I'm really tempted to unpack my old darkroom and buy some fresh chemicals. Keep up the good work, Tami :)

Joel :fav18

[Tami Martin]

I love B&W film but I shot these in color with my digital then did some sharpening, contrast adjustment and then converted to B&W.

[BobHunt]

Tami, this almost reminds me of a favorite poem, "Stopping by a forest on a snowy evening.." by Robert Frost! Very well done! Just think, our God was the original painter!!!

[Tami Martin]

Bob, Robert Frost is my favorite poet! I love that one :)

[BobHunt]

Tami, when I was in high school (that seems like ages ago!) I wrote a 5000 word term paper on Robert Frost and his poetry. That was one paper I really enjoyed! His poem about apple picking is one of my favorites too, maybe because I know a little about what he was speaking off. My Mom and I had a job at an orchard, the trees in north eastern NY were so loaded that year that the branches almost touched the ground. They gave you a container made out of white burlap and you fastened the straps around your shoulders. After you picked it full of apples, you went over to a huge box on a pallet and undid a bracket on the front and the cloth bottom came loose so that you could empty this into the huge box.
That was the most enjoyable job!
We had Macs, Cortlands, Northern Spies, Jonathans, Early Harvest, and I think there was one they called Snowball....plus others! You could hear the crunch as you bit into them and feel the juice drip off your chin as you tasted the wonderful flavor of those apples, I hope they have em in Heaven!

[Tami Martin]

Do we have a drooling emoticon??

:D