Thunder Snow
Winter decided to stick around, so you should expect more snow pictures for the near future. This week’s snow total was forecasted to land somewhere between one inch and one foot, unsurprisingly we ended up with a total somewhere in the middle. Unfortunately the thunder snow from today’s storm ended up northeast of us in Boston. Thunder Snow is awesome, but I don’t envy the feet of snow they’ll be getting.
I convinced Rebecca to walk around campus yesterday during the first bit of snow and shot most of the images above. Stumbling across organ maintenance in the Vassar Chapel is one of those happy accidents that reinforces how idyllic campus can be in the winter. I get a little absorbed in trees, and the grounds provide a lot of fodder for that obsession. The old growth spruce trees on campus are gorgeous in the snow, even if they can get a little weird when they start dropping sap.
The last 5 images are from the heavier snow this morning. I picked up the Laowa 100mm macro last week for some film scanning and all this snow has been a great excuse to break it out. Our living room has a bay of leaded storm windows, and the best (worst) thing about them is that humidity gets trapped between the storm window and the more modern internal windows. Because of that moisture we get some great frost across the inside of the panes, and the older glass is just cloudy enough to act like a bit of a diffuser. The Laowa can shoot at 2:1 magnification and I stuck on some extension tubes to bump it up to around 2.5:1 magnification, which means the depth of field is an exceedingly thin sliver. I haven’t picked up a macro rail yet but I think that might be a future pick up, because my attempts to hand hold images for stacking have not panned out with that thin of a depth of field!
We also made another trip to the Trevor Zoo after last weekend’s snow, so enjoy an extra derpy triptych of my favorite animals!
