Misty Morning Sunrises In The Winter

Misty Morning Sunrise - January 12 2017

One of those photography moments when the clouds broke just at the right moment to produce a brilliant misty morning sunrise. Without snow, the January mornings are dreary. Cloudy skies day after day. Many mornings, the clouds wrap our mountains in a dense fog. This particular dawn started like so many, a thick fog that…

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Frozen Dawn Of A Cold Winter Day

Frozen Bell - January 8 2017

Our first snow of the season. The temperature hovered at 0ºF / -18ºC. So, of course, I was outside with a camera in hand capturing the frozen dawn. The dinner bell above is a reminder of my grandfather’s house, a place I spent most summers growing up. The bell was used to call us up…

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No Mythology Like Snow Mythology

As the Southern US is receiving its first (and possibly last) snow of the season, I am reminded of all of the snow mythology that I heard growing up. Now I know snow. I know it well. The snow did not slow me down one bit. I suffered through the harshness. I saw the Flight of…

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New Year Dawn – Opportunities Before Us

New Year Dawn - December 31 2016

Funny thing about plans – they are often affected by what you can not control. Take the simple concept of sharing the New Year Dawn as symbolic of the opportunities of 2017. My plan of capturing the first sunrise of the year and sharing it as my first public photograph of 2017 was thwarted by…

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