If you are interested in joining TJ Thorne and I on a workshop in the Columbia River Gorge, we have opened up a second workshop on the dates May 13th-17th due to demand, and have two spots left. Please find more information HERE Really interesting conditions at Bow Lake in the Canadian Rockies on this particularly frigid morning where the temperatures dipped down to around -25c. The coldest termperatures I have yet to experience. So cold in fact, that my tripod refused to work... the telescoping legs stopped telescoping, frozen in place from tiny amounts of condensation inside the bushings. It was a Gitzo. Don't buy a Gitzo. I was with Justin Grimm(who was appropriately nick named 'Ginsu' on this trip... have you seen how sharp his images are? Have you seen him work a focus stack? It's a sight to behold), and Erin Babnik. Justin also had a Gitzo that was frozen solid. Erin has an RRS, which worked like a champ. I had to shoot this shot entirely hand held, laying stomach down on the ground, up on my elbows, trying to pull off a clean focus stack. It wasn't super clean, but good enough. I now have an RRS. :D Anyway, yes, it was cold, very cold, causing all of these frosty ice crystal flowers(aka hoar frost) top pop up all along the shore of Bow Lake. It was just what we were looking for, and fortuitous being that for a couple weeks prior, there had been no weather, and unseasonably warm. The conditions made us all pretty happy, not to mention the misty awesome goodness that was floating through, giving Crowfoot mountain something to dive in and out of obscurity. All in all a fantastic morning, and definitely the standout moment of our brief visit.
Frosted Footprint
