A photographic tale of two days.

Friday and Saturday couldn't have been more different. Weather wise, that is. Friday was incredibly windy, and although the meter said -4°C, it felt like -15°C. At least for my fingers, while I was waiting for the perfect constellation of wind channels to blow the snow over the edges at the road. Luckily, almost no car came around. For good reason.

As of Saturday, you can read all about that (and see a few more pictures) in this post - that won the 1st prize in the Worldmapping community! Made the day even more awesome.

I didn't edit any of the pictures, as the cellphone program does an incredibly job already in the moment of taking the picture. I actually tried to compete with the Auto-Mode of the camera, using my little photography skills in the pro-mode, but soon gave up. Impossible in Friday, due to the temperatures - I barely could press the "snap" button. On Saturday, I realized that I wasn't as good as the app. So I returned to automatic.

Snow Ridge

At the entrance to the little village where my mom lives. I took one picture out of almost the same angle on both days:

I tried to get the snow haze, and I got a little much of it. That gust pushed it everywhere. Wasn't nice. Looks kind of cool. Maybe I'll B/W this one.

This one is around 2m behind the first one. It's impressive how much impact the wind had.

Friday

The spray of snow is all around!

I like the composition of this one, with the "new" sprouts bending in the wind and the old oak in the back.

From the other side it was a lot easier to photograph the snow spray. Equally cold, though.

Saturday

The wind had formed the most wonderful snow sculptures.

I went out around the same time of the day, but Saturday had way more light. I used this picture in the Worldmappin post.

This is one of my favorites. I got the angle just right to have the light all inside the little snow cave. This picture was used in this post: https://peakd.com/hive-168869/@beelzael/turning-off-events

The Tree Ridge

Friday

The old oak was one of my favorite motives. For one, because I remember it from my child days. For two, because the sun tends to go down right behind it when - making the most amazing pictures, as you'll see.

The ridge itself is a little longer, with more trees. The ugly bio gas plant is right next to it, so one has to walk out into the field to get better shots.

Saturday

Thanks for staying until now. These are the best pictures, in my opinion, so I wanted to save them for those who really appreciate and endure. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

Explosion & Implosion

More than the oak.

Looks a bit different when it's not grey and windy and cold and ugh, doesn't it?

The sky really had those colors. It was impressive.

Bonus Pictures

Four planes, all flying in different directions.

I loved this one. A version of it is featured in the other post, including mom and Lily. But this one, like that? So calm. So beautiful.

Mom went ahead to take pictures I think, but first she just stood there and admired.

See that face of complete and utter happiness? That's me. I can't even describe how happy I was that afternoon.

That's it. I hope you enjoyed it! Thank you so much for reading/looking. Or is there a specific verb for "looking at photos"? Watching is for videos I think, something in movement. If you know, let me know!

As always, any feedback and especially tips and tricks are very welcome! As long as it's not AI generated content or comment spamming... 😅

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All pictures are taken by myself with a Motorola Edge 60 Pro and I reserve the copyright - but you're welcome to ask if you'd like to use one of the pics!