Dec 6
Still snowing
Can’t complain about the weather, it’s certainly looking like winter now. I only wish it would be like this all winter through…
Since none of the trails are open yet, I decided to take the car and search for photo ops. I soon came across a flock of black grouse that didn’t take flight when I drove by, they normally do but now they endured me even when I reversed my car and opened the window to take some pictures. After a few frames they finally took off, but I did get my first black grouse pictures, even if it was with a landscape lens.
It was a very dark day, I had the camera on ISO 400 and I struggled to get shutter speeds fast enough to freeze the falling snowflakes. The days are also very short now, so I did some evening photography to make the most of the wonderful conditions. Unfortunately about half of the streetlights in Loos are orange so the snow takes on a funky colour, I can’t decide if I like it or not. The dark blue background is courtesy of the last remaining “daylight”.
We might be getting a little bit of sunshine tomorrow, that is also something to look forward to!
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Wonderful conditions? Well, surely there’s plenty of new snow and so on, but still, it’s cold
For some reason I think that you could have included the light into the picture. Just as a reference maybe, but I really do not know if that could ever even work…
Cold?! I was worried because it was getting too close to zero… don’t want those temperatures now, or all the snow will fall off the trees!
Including the light would’ve been almost impossible, it would’ve been just a big overexposed blob that even bracketing wouldn’t save; this was next to a zebra crossing (the only one in Loos) with extra bright lights.
My idea was to get the shape and lines of the tree so I did my best to avoid including any direct lights anyway. 
Unfortunately Loos is such a small place that the only interesting tree that was sufficiently lit was this one so I couldn’t really explore the idea as much as I’d liked to. 