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Snow muffles sound and as it fell, city sounds faded away. A Downy woodpecker was knocking on a nearby tree. Chickadees were flitting around, calling to each other.
The weather had been so warm for so long, folks had concluded that spring was a given, winter had overlooked us. Then the lake mist happened. Then it was business as usual and temperatures climbed again, spring was back on track.
“Not so quick!” Mother Nature admonished.
A snowstorm warning was issued, the hatches were battened down, the city prepared for the worst, and this happened. Nothing compared to snowstorms in other parts of Canada, but it was a significant snowfall, which came down overnight and yielded to bright blue skies the next morning. Then the next morning, beautiful snow started falling, it was what I had been longing for all winter, so I grabbed my camera and went for a walk in the snow.
In a couple of days, this will have been just a dream. Is it the last snowfall? Temperatures are due to climb back into double digits. March came in like a lion, so is due to go out like a lamb. We shall see…
I wasn’t the only one taking advantage of the snow. Somehow this beautiful young woman had been persuaded to take off her coat and pose in the snow with bare arms. Her exotic looks and flowing, colourful skirts certainly made for striking images.
For those who are interested in technical things: I took the VR using a Nodal Ninja pano head and my Nikon 10.5mm lens. I stitched the images in PTGui, then created the VR (360° image) in Pano2VR.
Because it was snowing, it would have been helpful to have had an umbrella to help keep snow from getting on my lens; however, I didn’t think of this as I headed out the door. I made do with holding my hand over the camera, careful that my hand wasn’t in the shot. I then blew over the top of the camera to encourage snowflakes to go around my camera. Yes, you read correctly. Blew. A little positive pressure to push things in the air away from the lens. This was especially useful for the up shots, in which an umbrella wouldn’t have been of any use. Blowing over (not on!) the camera managed to keep snowflakes off my lens!