1803_0135 Hoarfrost on Cottonwoods
Back home after a trip to Alberta - short & sweet, caught a nice seam in the weather - had great light and got away before the freezing rain and snow arrived. The morning I left home there was a fabulous hoarfrost display. I stopped at a cottonwood grove near the Monchy turnoff to the U.S. border, and made this shot.
A Great Horned Owl flew off one of these branches as I approached (through knee deep snow). I know where the nest is and kept away; at this time of year they are probably incubating their eggs and no photo is worth disrupting their breeding cycle.
The temperature was -16C (3F) when I got up that morning, but two and a half hours later, along the Trans-Canada north of the Cypress Hills, it had shot up to +10 (50F). That alone was worth the effort of getting out of town...
Photographed just off Hwy 18 between Val Marie and Orkney, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2018 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
1803_0135 Hoarfrost on Cottonwoods
Back home after a trip to Alberta - short & sweet, caught a nice seam in the weather - had great light and got away before the freezing rain and snow arrived. The morning I left home there was a fabulous hoarfrost display. I stopped at a cottonwood grove near the Monchy turnoff to the U.S. border, and made this shot.
A Great Horned Owl flew off one of these branches as I approached (through knee deep snow). I know where the nest is and kept away; at this time of year they are probably incubating their eggs and no photo is worth disrupting their breeding cycle.
The temperature was -16C (3F) when I got up that morning, but two and a half hours later, along the Trans-Canada north of the Cypress Hills, it had shot up to +10 (50F). That alone was worth the effort of getting out of town...
Photographed just off Hwy 18 between Val Marie and Orkney, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2018 James R. Page - all rights reserved.