Sno-tography

Leaves in Slush

"Cotton" Boll

 Today was one of those days . . .

For reasons I'm pretty sure I understand and that don't bode particularly ill, I've been having trouble sleeping.  Last night was the first decent night's sleep I've had after 3 bad nights running; not surprisingly, I woke up this morning feeling both rested and groggy.  It had snowed overnight, though, and I thought I had a beautiful lazy day with my daughter and grandson stretching in front of me.

Not so.  Afternoon karate classes were on as scheduled, and, just about as soon as I found that out, the morning exploded into a frantic series of small necessary chores that piled up so quickly I  could hardly breathe.  Groggy gave way to grumpy, which gave way to resigned.

Eventually I stopped feeling sorry for myself, grabbed the camera, and headed outside to see what I could find to shoot in the snow.  It was the perfect first step to clearing my head and brightening my mood.  Sunlight and crisp air do tend to work miracles on me.

Sweetgum Blanket

I didn't get to look at the images until much later.  I wasn't surprised that they weren't entirely successful - I've already started to learn that snow is hard to shoot, plus the light was pretty high overhead.  The cool thing, though, is that the extensive bracketing I was playing with gave me a couple of images that are interesting because of the way the foreground and background elements work together -- even though the foreground images didn't work out the way I was hoping.  

So there's the lesson for today - sometimes you don't find the image - it finds you.  The trick is to recognize the image when you see it.

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