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We've had almost a week of freezing temperatures and 3' of snow but the willow catkins survived!!!! Perhaps there is hope for springtime!
We've had the strangest weather. Sub-zero freezing temperatures, then an evening of rain with above freezing temperatures, then back down to sub-zero. Halifax and area are one gigantic skating rink. This weird weather did preserve however the tracks of a bobcat using the little trail through our patch...
Memories of the Arctic. It's interesting how you can miss sleeping in a tiny tent with freezing temperatures, lugging a heavy pack for hours on end, go without a shower for days.. I suppose it's views like these that make up for missing that, I can't think of a better way of getting out of your 'comfort' zone
Our camp at ~5,400m below the amazing Alpamayo. If you look closely, you will see two climbers rappeling the French Direct route, right above the bergschrund in the center of the face.
Despite the idyllic look, this is harsh living: can't stomach most of the food, don't get rested no matter how long you sleep, way below freezing temperatures at night, brutal dehydration and violent sun. In summary, fun!
Huascaran National Park
Cordillera Blanca, Peru
Fast ice at Lake Superior's Flour Bay- -about 100 km north of Sault Ste. Marie Ontario.
Fast ice is an extensive unbroken sheet of ice that is “fastened” to the shoreline or shoals; the ice forms from freezing temperatures (air and water), waves, drift ice, and snowfall. The Flour Bay fast ice varies from 3-6 meters in height.
This sheltered bay, on eastern Lake Superior, is part part of the Mamainse Point Formation: an area of the Midcontinent Rift System characterized by Precambrian (Mesoproterozic) volcanic activity over a billion years ago.
Explore No. 49
Thanks for the all the comments and favourites; this is my first photo to make Explore.
The weather forecast looked good so after an excellent day exploring Ardnamurchan and Morar sands we decided to stay another night in the comfortable Creag Mhor Logde in North Ballchulish.
Sunrise the following morning was overcast so we indulged in a much needed lie-in. By mid morning, however, we were back on the moor near the iconic Buachaille Etive Mor (or The Beuckle, as some climbers know it). After three trips looking for an alternative location, we explored the river between Kings House and Blackrock. Finally some potential shots came into view. I explored the river either side of this location but the pattern in the ice in the foreground caught my attention.
It took some tweaking for a good while to ensure that the foreground lined up with the best view of the mountain. The final composition involved standing on the ice and sitting in the snow so I'm glad that a few days worth of freezing temperatures had produced a good layer of ice!
Finally, I think I've got something a little different to the usual view of this much photographed mountain. It's still not the image I'd like to capture but it's getting there!
I hope you like it too. Please leave a comment if you do, or leave some criticism if you don't: thank you!
Nikon D200
Nikkor 18-70mm @ 18mm f/16
Lee 0.3 ND Grad + Polariser
Maybe this Sunday will give it a try again, I must dress in Layers cause we still have freezing temperatures here.
Have a great weekend!
Original caption from May 2013 post says: "Little known fact: Bossk was actually a laid back fella when off duty. As a rule, the Trandoshan metabolism didn't allow him to go out in the freezing temperatures on Hoth (danger of triggering a hibernation cycle), but around noon it wasn't that bad. After the Empire's "incident" on Hoth, Bossk spent some free time hanging out with his friend TK-24/7. Flying the Slave 1 with a remote and using it as a snowblower was great fun, Bossk just couldn't wipe that smile off his face."
I know, I am more inclined to dig up old fossils from archives that shoot new stuff these days, but the truth is that at this very moment I don't have a space to shoot in.
Unless I went outdoors... That's not a bad idea, actually.
This lingering blue-headed vireo looks like it's wearing a pair of white glasses as it gazes our way. Since we're going to get some bitter freezing temperatures tonight, I'm guessing this bird will be winging south toward the far southern states before morning.
BACK to my Bavaria uploads! :)
On the last day there I headed to Eibsee. I did want to take the lift up Germany's tallest mountain, Zugspitze, but as you can see from this photo, and others I'll upload, the conditions were not great...snow, fog, below freezing temperature.
So we decided to stay at ground level and walk around Eibsee, which was a pleasure in itself. In fact, from the ground we couldn't even SEE Zugspitze. You would not have known it was there. You wouldn't have known Eibsee was surrounded by peaks at all. It was surrounded by soup like fog. But it made for a cool atmosphere so I'm not mad :)
Half Dome in the foreground and El Capitan in the background as seen from aboard a tiny Cessna 206 with the doors off in chilly sub-freezing temperatures. Nearby prescribed Forest Service burns outside the park boundary resulted in smoke haze settling into Yosemite Valley that lent an unexpected soft diffuseness over the landscape catching the last rays of the setting sun.
Stars shine brightly over this night time photo of St. Joseph Lighthouse in St. Joseph Michigan. The light is encased in ice from the freezing temperatures and chilling waters that Lake Michigan tosses at it on stormy days.
You can see an aerial shot of some of us shooting the lighthouse in the afternoon here: flic.kr/p/qSg49K
Last of the Lake Superior fast ice at Sawpit Bay- -about 80 km north of Sault Ste. Marie Ontario.
Fast ice is an extensive unbroken sheet of ice that is “fastened” to the shoreline or shoals; the ice forms from freezing temperatures (air and water), waves, drift ice, and snowfall.
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After another week of freezing temperatures (windchill of -40oC for a couple of days) it turned warm today so I dragged my husband to Elk Island for a couple of hours of enjoying sunshine and fresh air. And boy! I needed it!!
Winter sunset at Sawpit Bay on eastern Lake Superior- -about 80 km north of Sault Ste. Marie Ontario.
Fast ice is an extensive unbroken sheet of ice that is “fastened” to the shoreline or shoals; the ice forms from freezing temperatures (air and water), waves, drift ice, and snowfall.
On a historically cold winter day of -7°C and heavy snowfall, this Anna's can only lick the frozen dew to quench it's thirst.
It was so bitterly cold yesterday that even by the afternoon the frost was still clinging to everything, and freezing fog making everything misty. This is the Pump Room Gardens, not quite deserted because of the combination of freezing temperatures and lockdown.
With a blast of freezing temperatures come certain opportunities – freezing soap bubbles are a fun subject, and you can stage them in dynamic ways! This a soap bubble in the process of freezing solid, perched on an iris. I’ve always thought that the three sets of petals would make for an interesting design to hold a crystal ball of sorts, so I brought that idea to life here.
First, you need temperatures at -8C / 18F or colder, with absolutely no wind. Second, you need a bubble mix that resists popping on contact surfaces – and that mix is:
6 parts water
2 parts dish soap
1 part white corn syrup.
It’s the white corn syrup that pools at the bottom of a bubble and acts like a cushion. Even still, many bubbles pop. In fact, with multiple distinct points of contact like we’re seeing here, I was only ever able to get the first bubble placed to stay intact. Every other bubble I attempt to place in the same location popped immediately. Glad I got at least one for the 20 minutes of trying in considerably sub-zero weather!
To be clear, I placed the iris outside in advance so it could acclimate to the outside temperature, freezing solid although it doesn’t appear any different than it did indoors. If I were to bring the flower back inside it would almost immediately turn into a goopy blob, as the cold temps destroyed all the cells in the flower.
The flower is backlit by a bright LED flashlight (I’m really liking the NiteCore TM03 CRI for a lot of macro work: www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1278642-REG/nitecore_tm03_... ), positioned almost directly behind the flower but just a bit higher so that the light source isn’t in the frame. Shooting with a continuous burst while handholding the camera, it’s easy to sway forward and back a little to get the focus and framing exactly as you want it.
Freezing bubbles are tricky because of their depth – you want some crispness to the outer edge but also the front crystals to be sharp. To get a good amount of depth here, this was shot with the Lumix S1R and the 24-105 F/4 kit lens at F/16, but with a wider frame. I was intentionally farther away from my subject know that I had plenty of resolution to crop in with. The further away you are from your subject, the greater your depth of field, giving me the best of both resolution and depth. :) The flexibility of having a rock-solid high-resolution camera cannot be understated, it allows for all sorts of limit-pushing tricks!
Rhino.
Lake Superior sunrise at Cottrell Cove at -15°C - -about 80km north of Sault Ste. Marie.
Fast ice is an extensive unbroken sheet of ice that is “fastened” to the shoreline or shoals; the ice forms from freezing temperatures (air and water), waves, drift ice, and snowfall. The fast ice at Cottrell Cove varies from one to two meters thick.
This was a shot I took on my way to the Met Museum in NYC.The freezing temperature was in the single digit that day,Martin Luther King day.The wind was brutal.Enjoy your Sunday,and stay warm.
Every now and then you have to get away from everyone and everything - even when it means pushing through snow squalls with wihiteout conditions, icy roads, and freezing temperatures to get there. There was no cell phone signal here and no interruptions. The only sounds were wind in the trees and the crunching of snow under snowshoes. Staying warm and feeling your breath with the effort brings it all back to basics.
May 9, 2020, Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada.
Still just a few species of warblers and low numbers, snowed this morning, freezing temperatures overnight.
Setophaga virens
One male Black-throated Green Warbler was observed singing 466 songs in one hour.
source - www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Black-throated_Green_Warbler
Finally here in Bulgaria we have a real winter conditions. Till now the winter hasn't been impressive at all. But during the last weekend a good snow covered almost the whole country and in combination of freezing temperatures, provided a good opportunity for some snowy pictures. On the photo BDZ 44 127 is rushing through the snow with the going late IC 8610 (Burgas - Sofia), near Vakarel station.
Not much left on the ground; but the trees are still covered as we just broke freezing temperatures yesterday and we stayed overcast all day. But the sun is burning the fog away and we will have a sunny day with lots of melting thermal energy! Just in time for another approaching storm Thursday evening and Friday!!! LOL This is the woods just south of the house!
Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada
This little one perched on top of my BBQ - enduring freezing temperatures and very strong winds!
The snow was all gone but a sudden snowstorm brought over a foot of snow on the 18th and 19th of April. Here is what I wrote on FB I checked the live bird migration map this morning and weather conditions. Seems like it snowed at least from S. Dakota to here. I also looked at maps to try to figure out the bird radar locations.
In spite of the wintry conditions, there was a large number of birds that left the area of Aberdeen, SD (where there is a big wildlife refuge) around 10 pm, and went generally NW, a bit over Bismark but mostly Minot, where activity peaked around 2- 3 am , 4 to 5 hours later to slowly disappear over the border into SK. I think the birds have to be strong flyers, likely cranes or waterfowl, but I am puzzled as to why they would migrate in a snowstorm with the ground covered with snow and freezing temperatures. It's not like they will have an easy time of finding open water and food when they get here....
For that matter, the night before there was certainly a large migration of Fox Sparrows and Juncos as I had 3 fox Sparrows in my yard and people seem to have reported lots around Regina. We even had an Orange-crowed Warbler. We also had 4 Yellow-rumped warblers the day before.
I get that it's the right time of year and the winds are suitable but am surprised that the birds are not apparenlty being deterred by the weather. Well, the snow started melting on the 21st but in the morning the ground was still 100 % snow cover. On the 21st, open patches were visible at the bse of some trees and under spruce Much more open by the end fo the afternoon with the street 98 % clear. I must have been worried for nothing. Even the Yellow-rumps nd RCKI seem to be ok. Home, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. 22 April 2023
Sammamish River Trail
Bothell, WA
We did not have a white Christmas, but we had a white day after Christmas which continues to linger due to freezing temperatures.
Fallingbrook falls in Orléans, Ontario. There is new ice formation after a week of early spring freezing temperatures.
A random snapshot that was taken on a very rare snow day in Southern Mississippi that happened on Thursday, December 11, 2008.
This is a random five-pointed star that is also known as a ''pentagram'' that I had made out of hardened snow as the snow chunks had become hard clumps of ice from the sub-freezing temperatures.
Taft Point, Yosemite National Park is one the hidden gems in the park. Instead of joining the masses down on the valley floor vying for a spot to view Horsetail Falls off El Capitan my buddy and I decided for a different approach: Photograph it from Taft Point. We cross country skied 9 miles and then another mile in deep snow out to Taft Point for a front row seat the incredible sunset. It was definitely worth the excruciating journey to get out there. But afterward I couldn't move another muscle and we made the decision to camp out at Taft Point in sub freezing temperatures. The next day we made the trek back to Badger Pass and enjoyed a celebratory meal.
It is almost December.. We have had freezing temperatures overnight for more than a week, but these little beings manage to thrive..I admire their strength and perseverance..
We usually only see these after first couple of cold nights at the start of Winter I saw this one on a walk around the farm.
Freezing temperatures force moisture out of these weed roots creating these ice flowers.
Have a great weekend!
We've been getting some heavy fogs over the last couple of nights, and me being an incurable insomniac - what better way to kill an hour or so, than a late night walk in just above freezing temperatures to the seafront?
I observed a fisherman out on the lake in sub-freezing temperatures. Because of the season, there was very little color out there. So I opted to focus on the fence and use the fisherman in the background to help create some color during editing.
I hope others enjoy this perspective as much as I do.
Winter moth on a wooden bench in todays nice sunshine.
The winter moth is one of the few species that can survive freezing temperatures.
This is a male as the females have no wings.
Chigwell Meadow.
The smallest Robin!
I've never seen it before, he made me happy.
Today I changed my camera's "focus tracking setting" and the result is not what I wanted.
The clarity is not what I expected.
What happens to Robins in the winter?
In the winter, they become nomadic, searching widely for their favorite cold-weather fare. Weather also influences robin movements. A heavy snowfall that persists for more than a few days may send them on their way, searching for better conditions. Robins also form flocks in the winter.
Can Robins survive snow?
Even in freezing temperatures, robins can stay warm enough to make staying through the winter worthwhile. ... If you want to observe robins in winter, try putting out water for them. They can survive on their own by eating snow, but birds always welcome a source of unfrozen water for drinking and bathing.
What do Robins eat when there is snow on the ground?
There isn't much one can feed robins in the winter. They're very adept at finding their preferred food and rarely visit feeding stations. During severe weather, robins may eat raisins, berries, or pieces of apples placed on the ground.
Do robins sing all day?
We know that robins are one of the first species to begin singing every morning. ... They sing the most early in the morning and at evening twilight after sunset. They sing the least around noon. We thought we could figure out approximately how many songs they sing each hour through the day, and add these up.
What is the sound of a robin singing?
It's a string of 10 or so clear whistles assembled from a few often-repeated syllables, and often described as cheerily, cheer up, cheer up, cheerily, cheer up. The syllables rise and fall in pitch but are delivered at a steady rhythm, with a pause before the bird begins singing again. At dawn, the song is more rapid.
Why do robins sing in winter?
The sound of a robin chirping in winter is a good sign, say scientists. It means the bird has built up enough fat reserves to survive the cold nights and has enough energy left to defend its territory. The bird traditionally sings in spring to attract a mate but in winter, when food is short, it faces a dilemma.
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This warmth-loving Florida girl took a trip out to Colorado, in January!!, to visit a great friend who also is a bird lover. We made a trek out to Guanella Pass for our target bird; the White-tailed Ptarmigan. We searched for several hours, in gusty winds, freezing temperatures and deep snow and finally found a group of about 15. We almost walked right by them they blended in so well in the snow.
It was amazing and worth every fall I took!
The Swedes ride their bikes even in the snow and freezing temperatures.
Шведы ездят на велосипедах несмотря на снегопад и мороз.
Fox tracks preserved in the freezing temperatures of -18C/0F on Öxnadalsheiði mountainpass, N-Iceland.
The little blue tit in front of my office window has pumped up quite a bit and now looks almost like a ball with feathers.
This is probably because winter has returned and a frosty wind is blowing.
The small and delicate fellows are real survivors. Despite freezing temperatures, they hardly ever freeze. They simply fluff up their feathers and create extremely effective thermal insulation from which only their feet can be seen. And these are simply cooled down to almost freezing point so that no heat is lost there. God, I don't want to have such cold feet.
Die kleine Blaumeise vor meinem Bürofenster hat sich ganz schön aufgepumpt und sieht jetzt fast aus wie eine Kugel mit Federn.
Da liegt wohl daran, dass der Winter zurück gekehrt ist und ein frostiger Wind weht.
Die kleinen und zarten Gesellen sind schon echte Überlebenskünstler. Trotz eisiger Temperaturen frieren sie so gut wie nie. Sie plustern einfach ihr Gefieder auf und schaffen sich so eine extrem effektive Wärmedämmung aus der nur noch die Füße heraus schauen. Und diese werden einfach bis fast auf den Gefrierpunkt runter gekühlt, damit dort keine Wärme verloren geht. Himmel, so kalte Füße möchte ich aber auch nicht haben.
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Winter is still over a month away, though its effects are becoming more evident beginning this week. I've prepared gardens such as my cactus garden for the coming cold. While many of the cacti can handle far below freezing temperatures, some of the rarer cacti are quite sensitive to the cold. I erect a greenhouse over them for the winter with an oil-filled heater to keep them cozy. Other plants, like the chrysanthemum and camellias, have no fear of such times, "Winter? Bring it on!" This camellia looks like gold-frilled crinoline with a splash of pink. Pleasure in small graces... take 'em when you can.
The Haleakalā silversword, has numerous sword-like succulent leaves covered with silver hairs. Silversword plants in general grow on volcanic cinder, a dry, rocky substrate that is subject to freezing temperatures and high winds. The skin and hairs are strong enough to resist the wind and freezing temperature of this altitude and protect the plant from dehydration and the sun.
The plant's base of leaves, arranged in a spherical formation at ground level of the plant, dominates for the majority of the plant's life—which may be greater than 50 years. The leaves are arranged so that they and the hairs of the leaves can raise the temperature of the shoot-tip leaves up to 20 °C (36 °F), thereby having adapted to the extreme high-altitude temperatures by focusing the sunlight to converge at this point and warm the plant. (Wikipedia)