December Blizzard

When the snow stopped falling yesterday at about midday, I decided to take a walk.  The panorama when I left the house was lovely.

Then the wind began to blow.  It was a challenge to keep my lens dry.

It was too deep in most places to walk in the field, so I kept to the road.  I came to an orchard, where a stand of spruce shielded me from the relentless wind.

There was a frozen apple in one of the trees. A bonus for some lucky deer when it finally falls.

 

 

 

 

 

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Past the orchard I was back in the wind.  There is a pond where we all swim in the summer.  Sure looked different yesterday.

The grasses were blowing wildly

 

The air above the frozen pond was filled with snow.  It was beautiful in a wild way, but very cold, so I retraced my steps in the road and headed home.  And the wind and the snow kept blowing.

New Visions Exhibit Opens December 9th

I am very glad to announce that my work has been included in New Visions, an exhibit of new work by members of Professional Women Photographers, here in New York.  The opening is 6-8 pm on Thursday, December 9th and the show will be up until January 15th in the lobby of the Durst building at 1133 Avenue of the Americas.

Brings back memories from another lifetime,  when I was a Program Director at RCA VideoDiscs and had an office on the second floor of that building.  We had moved there from 10 Rockefeller Center, where I had a beautiful view of the plaza and the Christmas tree.  Magical.  Then, as  an economy measure, the entire videodisc division moved to 1133 Avenue of the Americas, a perfectly fine building and even easier commute for me, but where my view was of a Duane Reade drug store.  Alas.  No magic.

Back to the exhibit.  As usual, I am a little mystified by the choice by the curator of the exhibit.  The photograph that was chosen is this:

I do like this image very much.  It is one I shot with my husband’s little Lumix when we traveled on a sailing ship last winter.  The amazing thing to me was that such a small camera could produce such a nice large, sharp image (17″ x 22″) with almost no help from Photoshop.  I blogged about the camera last March in my entry called Large Print from a Small Camera.  I had rather hoped that the image I blogged about there would be chosen:

But at least you get to see it again here….Do stop by the show as there is bound to be a great deal of good work shown.