Payette River Frost

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On my way to visit Sylvia at work I had to stop and photograph the cold, winter river. This valley runs east/west so it gets little to no sunlight during the winter months. So even though it was the middle of the day, there was still plenty of frost on the rocks. The river humidity makes an ever-present ice covering in the deep of the valley.

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Payette River "Beach"

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This is a prime example of almost doing it right, then trying again. And getting it very wrong
on the second try.

I first decided to shoot the little beach and when I thought I had it, I moved on to doing a "backup" shot of it with the sky. Well, both shots were sub-par. The first is mostly a cropping issue (save the lack of light, but the sun doesn't shine here for more than half the year). The second has a better crop, but in trying to create and HDR shot from 4 exposures I really ruined this one. Not to worry. I'm showing it anyway. This is a blog, after all, not a portfolio.

Project Patch and Payette River

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One day I needed to go to Project Patch. I decided to bring along my camera. The trip was very nice, and I saw some beautiful things. For the time of day I feel like I got some nice images. What do you think? Let me know in the comments!

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Spring Hail Flowers

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After a worrying drive home, looking at ugly clouds and wondering about tornado's, I passed through a tiny bit of a hail storm. Much relieved I arrived home to discover I had experienced only a little bit of the storm that had happened at home. With the sun coming out and warming temperatures already melting the ice, I had to act fast to photograph these little balls of joy among the spring flowers. The images of both turned out to not be so compelling but the individual shots are quite nice, at least to me.