Dec 27
Snow cave
It seemed like there might actually be a sunrise today. I mean the kind of sunrise that you can see – with colour and all, you know. So I made my way to a new spot I had found, the viewpoint is a bit too low to actually see the sun come over the horizon but if there’s any colour in the sky, it should be good. And I guess it is, but there really wasn’t much colour to go around today. A little bit of a pink glow in the fast moving clouds so I put on a filter to get a 6 sec exposure and then in LR just generously under-expose and saturate to bring out the colour. And it’s still not much. But the 6 sec exposure turned out to be a good idea, because the blurry clouds work much better than the short shutter version with sharp clouds.
When the wind quieted down yesterday afternoon, the snowing took on. So we now have a new layer of fluffy snow, it’s past knee deep as I found when I took a short cut through the forest… but despite that, it’s fairly easy to walk through because it really is airy and light. And then I came across some strange holes in the snow, figured it must’ve been a bird because there were no tracks leading to or from the holes. Until I found a hole which hadn’t caved in yet and saw grouse droppings at the bottom – it’s as good a snow cave as I’ve ever seen (=the first snow cave I’ve ever seen)! With the snow as fluffy as it is, it must’ve been easy for the grouse to create the cave and then break it open in the morning to fly off. You can just make out the wing depressions in the snow.
Just goes to show. Even if there are no great pictures to be had, there’s always a chance to see and learn something new!
3 comments
Darn, looks like nice sunshine. Too bad I missed it completely myself today
Darn, I need one of such filters now too!
Well it was easy to miss, it lasted like… dunno, 10 minutes maybe.
Filter = ND filter -> yes you need one! And a polariser…
Which reminds me, I need to put in an order at ScandPhoto for a bushing so if you feel a terrible urge to get a filter soon-ish… 
Ah, du har hittat en snölega! Det är häftigt om man är ute och åker skidor direkt efter snöfall. Ibland trycker de riktigt hårt. En gång flög det upp en orre precis framför mina skidspetsar!