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This looked very cool while it did this. The fog was right in the trees, and the shadow onto the fog was making the treetops look all strange and bent.
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See? The rays made things look a little funky, but cool funky. I screwed up a lot of the ones just before these. I was blowing them out letting the camera meter things(pretty sure I was on 200 ISO too, as I seem to remember seeing a blinking 1/4000th shutter indicator...meaning I needed to stop down or change the ISO down to 100). I tried looking at the lcd but I just could not see it at all. It was changing fast too and my hand was about to fall off. Then I slowed down and got a better look at things next to the van.
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No sun pillars and the sun had risen above that fog bank out there, so time to fly back to the river. This caught my eye on the way in.
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And so did this! Hurry time! Too bad one can't just freeze the sun lower in the sky for a while.
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My scene at Wilson Island where I started wasn't that cool, so I drove into Desoto to the other river stop. High pressure overhead and slipping south now, cold as hell still. I'm sure it was still around -20F during this shot. Earlier my camera just about stopped functioning, something I've never seen it do in the cold. I'd hit play on the lcd to look at the images to delete some and it would sloowwwwly change pictures and be a bit faded while it did. This was at least a tie with the coldest air I've ever experienced. I'm guessing it edged out the -18 in March several years back.
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I could just barely make out a sundog about now. I was like sweet! But it never got any stronger...at least not here.
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It's a good thing I was trying to be everywhere at once. I almost didn't leave the river, since there was plenty to shoot there. Something said, go back over to Wilson Island and make sure you aren't missing thicker fog there. About 2 blocks into the drive I begin to see this above. My sundogs! Bout time. You can see the halo too. Any white specks you see in the image are ice crystals. They were floating everywhere....creating these sundogs/halo. I shot a few of these here then drove towards the halo/sundogs. I drove back out of the thicker area of crystals and the display vanished...of course. I then drove back to the river.
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Nuclear power plant on the left, cargil hidden on the right. Well they weren't creating clouds when I came over, but this view here made me start to think Cargil was. If it wasn't now, it soon would be. So I go from 2003 till 4 days ago only having seen it twice, to seeing it that time 4 days ago and again today, lol. It's still rare as hell that it will do that though. |
