Winter Photo Thread 2015-16 (NH) (icy, Raleigh, snow, temperature)

[nei]

Originally Posted by Cambium

Agree on the river one although the one from the road looks amazing too. Love how the snow just sticks and hangs onto the trees. Looks like a painting. Very lucky to be in that area with that scenery.

That's why wet, heavy snow is better. A different sort of winter landscape... bike ride this morning. Small island cuts the Connecticut River in two. West half:



In the summertime, it was shallow enough you could walk across. Rather mucky, too. East side appeared completely different:



A couple more of the river.

Spoiler

another view of the east half of the river



west half, but looking south. The platform created ice by slowing the current:

Nice sky. It kept switching from mostly cloudy to partly sunny:



More "lit clouds". Temps in the mid 40s. Windy, from the west or northwest.

[Guajara]

Continuing with the Malaga Citypark










Royal palm on the right side.


Canary Island Pine













Horrible photo but anyway i think this is a Spindle Palm. (FlamingGalah?)





Ravenea Ravularis





Small Roads







Mirador





No wilderness



But it's beautiful anyway



Garganta del Chorro and the Famous Caminito del Rey



The new safe path



Reservoir



A few banana plants



A water power plant ?



It's evening, the last few people are coming back from the tour



I would have loved to experience it.
But even 3 months before the trip all spots were taken.



Train Tunnel









To be continued

[Cambium]

Originally Posted by nei

That's why wet, heavy snow is better.

Nah, I prefer dry fluff snow, if you get enough it will stick to trees. Problem with Heavy wet snow is that the flakes are made up of too much water and in any sunlight it will just melt easier and not last. Plus looks to "cakey" or cement like..

Originally Posted by nei

More "lit clouds". Temps in the mid 40s. Windy, from the west or northwest.

Awesome. I have to learn how to get the cloudy background to show structure and color without losing the foreground brightness!


But I do have a question regarding this. How tall is your bike? Did you have a selfie stick or something? Looks like you're 10 feet in the air. lol

[Cambium]

Drip Drip Drip. Another day in the 40s. Snowpack going....going...


I will admit.. the sun and snow on ground feels so good. Just a Gorgeous day. Anything above low 40s gets too warm. I love Sunny, cool days with snow on ground. Just something about that. Prefer 20s of course but can't complain about low 40s for this area.

[Infamous92]

First pic is during the blizzard, the rest are the morning after.













Wish I could've got some better shots, but I was snowed in and couldn't go anywhere. And trudging through deep snow is exhausting lol.

[tom77falcons]

Here you go Cambium.



Pre storm pics the morning before the storm

















Post storm

[nei]

Originally Posted by Cambium

Nah, I prefer dry fluff snow, if you get enough it will stick to trees. Problem with Heavy wet snow is that the flakes are made up of too much water and in any sunlight it will just melt easier and not last. Plus looks to "cakey" or cement like..

Hmm. I think I like the "cakey" look. Dry snow blows off easily with any wind. Shouldn't it be harder to melt wet snow? More water content... more energy to melt the same level of snow.

Awesome. I have to learn how to get the cloudy background to show structure and color without losing the foreground brightness!

I took that my phone (iPhone 6) camera. Can't remember if it was auto-exposed or I adjusted it. If you tap the screen, you can adjust the the exposure so the clouds aren't washed out.

But I do have a question regarding this. How tall is your bike? Did you have a selfie stick or something? Looks like you're 10 feet in the air. lol

Eh, normal bicycle height; I was off my bike when I took the photo. I angled the camera up to get more of the sky.

[nei]

Philly looks nice in the snow. Snowy big cities is a great combo but the snow geets dirty fast in big cities.

[Bottletree]

Originally Posted by nei

That's why wet, heavy snow is better. A different sort of winter landscape... bike ride this morning. Small island cuts the Connecticut River in two. West half:



In the summertime, it was shallow enough you could walk across. Rather mucky, too. East side appeared completely different:



A couple more of the river.

Spoiler

another view of the east half of the river



west half, but looking south. The platform created ice by slowing the current:

Nice sky. It kept switching from mostly cloudy to partly sunny:



More "lit clouds". Temps in the mid 40s. Windy, from the west or northwest.

Nice pics!

[Cambium]

Here's a cool question.


Which would be faster to completely melt to nothing?


12" of snow here or 24" in Washington D.C? Guess it depends on weather pattern at the time.


Still have a snowpack here (only 1-3"). DC suburbs have 10-13" still.
Washington, DC 20001 Area Snow Depth