So, I had only posted a couple photos yesterday of our white Christmas, as the skies stayed grey, but today it was glorious outside (aside from the cold) with hoarfrost, and loads of powdered snow on the trees. I took some nice photos on my properly, many are HDRs and a few silouettes of my wife riding her horses.
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First, a couple of silouette shots with the fresh powder and vast blue skies.
Into the sunset...
I left this one dark, as i liked the look of the sun without brightening up the other areas of the photo.
And the snow covered Christmas balls are bright in the sun today.
The powder is really pristine, we got about 30cm (1ft) of snow in the last couple days and the trees just look fantastic!
If only I didn't have the orange snow fench in view, but hey, who noticed??
The tips of these trees are nice and frosty.
The HDR shots worked great for all these facing the sun, as it really outlined the edges of the snow, but left the blue skies possible as well in the photo.
Lets get a close up of one of those pine cones.
This is my handywork actually, a 12m long wall by 1.3m high masonry rock retainer wall, I build with rocks all on our property. You can't see much of it in the snow, but the sun had melted off a few of the rocks, since they absorbe so much heat.
And there is my wife on anther horse making snow trails in the powder through the yard.
Thought I'd play with focus a bit and get the snow flakes on the tree top here still.
This is our old horse(named Whiz), he just woke up from a nap, and looks like it. haha
A big percheron cross, named Oakley
And Indy, wondering why I'm taking photos of him while he is busy eating.
Another piece of my handywork, this 4m bridge gaps a spring time stream we get, but looks great viewed through as a window.
These last are also HDRs, and I like how they turned out, showing the long fence of hoarfrost and fresh powder.
The thick frost covered wire, is the electric line.
And finally, I really like this one, the color from the sun flare in my camera really came out in HDR along with the hanging seed pods.
Past HDR Photo Sets
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