We have had so much snow this winter compared to other years, it's been crazy. With what we received this past week we are up over 20 inches total now. Most of it has been icy or tiny broken pieces but we had one very small flurry where it was producing some lovely flakes. This is one of them. This is a 5 stack image. I use Affinity Photo to stack and process the image.
It's Monday, happy new week! It's also the last day of September already! The year is flying by. Today's image is of my Morning Glory which is finally blooming. It took forever to start but it is putting out several blooms each day and looking lovely. This is a 3 image focus stack of a few of the blooms. I planted 4 seeds and the result was blooms in dark pink and light pink.
Happy Monday and happy new week! My Hibiscus plants have been inside over the winter. One of them had some struggles but one has done really well and was blooming again this past week. I took this image which is actually a 2 image stack to get both flowers in focus one evening when I noticed how nice the flowers looked. I shot it against my white background thingy. 😄
It's been warm lately so spring is on the way. I can share snowflakes and not feel cold. This one is another 9 image stack that I captured on a very cold day in January. I loved the tiny little snowflake that attached on the upper right like a jewel to the bigger flake. I also left the little one that was developing off to the left which reminded of a jewel as well.
Today's image is another snowflake I was able to capture in mid January. I loved the design of this one and I included a fragment of another that was off to the side. I got lucky with a few flakes not being broken up due to the wind. This is a 9 image stack.
Today I am sharing a snowflake that I was able to catch in our snow in January when it was very cold and windy. This a very neat one I think. It is, at least, 2, if not 3, snowflakes stuck together. It is only 9 images stacked but I was able to get it all in focus so I was happy with that as well.
It's February! January seemed like quite the loooong month with all the cold and snow. Now that we have gone the opposite way and are unseasonably warm, 65F for a high, I am going to share a snowflake photo. 😁 I took this one during a snow in the middle of January when it around 10 degrees F out. It was windy that day so I only lucked out in capturing some flakes for a short time. This one is more unusual as it doesn't have many protrusions from the "arms" they are just more like bars and it is just very plain looking. I found it rather interesting. It is 9 images stacked for focus.
Today's image is another I captured of the wonderful fern frost that developed on the top of my heated birdbath. The temps were around zero and there must have been some warmer air coming off the water and it clung to the top edge of the bath and created these lovely formations. This image is a focus stack of 5 images.
Happy Monday and happy new week! Today's image is one more that I was able to capture and process from a snow we had in November. This one had a lovely center and rime covered extensions. It is 8 images stacked for focus.
We have had some really bitter cold temperatures lately, at 0F during the day and below at night. The birdbath is heated to keep the water liquid and it had some really neat looking fern type frost on some ice around the top edge. This is some of it. This is 2 images stacked together for focus.
Happy Monday and new week! It's Martin Luther King Day here in the US and a holiday for a lot of people, myself included. We are hopefully on the last day of our bitter cold snap. Today is only supposed to be a high of 4F. UGH. The snow we have gotten the past few days has not even been good because when it was cold enough, then it was windy and broke it up. 😞 My image for today is another I captured back in November. This one was clear of rime and is a 15 image stack.
Today's image is another snowflake that I was able to capture near the end of November. This is a 5 image stack where I was able to get it all in focus. You can see some of the rime that was affecting a lot of the flakes during this snow. We don't often get the very cold weather and snow at the same time needed for the really nice, clean flakes. When it is warmer they pick up the little pieces of ice as they form. It provides interest to them at times I think when there is not too much covering them to block out the beautiful details.
The day after Christmas it snowed again. It was fairly warm out so depending on where the flakes landed they were melting pretty quickly. Usually I stack several images for focus. These flakes were melting too quickly for that and fortunately I was able to get most of them in focus in just one shot.
This is another of the snowflakes I captured during our first snowfall of the season. This one shows off a bit how most of them weren't great as they had a good amount of rime on them. This one has it on the outer branches so that they kind of look to be coated in sugar. This is a focus stack of 8 images. There was a small chip off to the left edge that never formed any branches or could be a bit of a branch that broke off.
So today I am sharing another of the snowflakes I was able to capture during our day of snow where we actually got almost 7 inches! The most we have received at one time since 2014! Anyway, these 2 fell fairly close together so this is a 16 image focus stack of which I could have used a few more. Ah well.
Happy Monday and new week! We had a neat and rare occurrence on Saturday. We had some fog in our area which created Hoar frost! It wasn't as large as some I have seen in the past but it made for some nice photos of a few things. This is some Bittersweet that I captured in my yard that looks like it is sugar coated. This is a focus stack of 2 images to get more detail.
We had a snow last weekend that was the most snow we have had at one time for quite some time and was quite a surprise due to it coming in November. We ended up with almost 7 inches of it. Most was kind of crappy and broken or rimey but I did get to capture a few that were nice. This is one that I processed out of 4 images that turned out fairly well even though it had a bunch of rime on it.
Happy Monday and new week. Autumn has really arrived now and we will be having a lot cooler temperatures than we had been. I doubt and of my flowers will have made it through the cold weekend. That part makes me sad and very much looking forward to spring again. Anyway, this is my Toad Lily, a rather unique flower. I only got 2 blooms off of it this year because something ate most of it half way down before I was able to protect it. I will have to keep protection around it earlier now as it is not the first time something has eaten it. This is a 3 image focus stack. Toad Lilies get their name from the spotted flowers and warty sac-like bumps which are the nectar secreting glands. They originally came from Japan.
Happy Monday! Hope this week is better than last. Starting off the week with an image of one of my African Violets that flowered for the first time ever. It has a beautiful gradient violet color that starts dark on top and goes to while at the bottom. I did an artsy backlit shot and this is a 3 image focus stack.
Happy Monday! This is one more of the snowflakes that I captured in late February. I was very pleased with how this one turned out. This was a 12 image stack for focus. I liked the bits of color in the lower branches especially the lower right orange flash of color.
