Oh for COLD.

Well, here's a quick update that should have happened on January 17th. I went out on the 16th to shoot references of my target locations and subjects out in the new snow, and although it was clear and bright, it was still ungodly cold. I went back out to the unharvested cornfield I've been watching for the bluejay painting to get references of how snow sits on vertical stalks. It seems to only sit in the crevices of leaves and in the bends of stalks--and it just slides off of everywhere else. I also drove out to Oxbow to re-visit those sandstone ledges and the frozen crick, although as I found the river was completely frozen over. Due to the cold, the ice flow was huge and solid, and somewhat more indistinct than it had been at the milder temperatures. I guess I'll have to sort of wing it as far as the ice in the bobcat painting I'm trying to put together goes, but now I know I have enough material to work from.

I found the cold too harsh to go out into the animal enclosures at Oxbow, so I went back into town and ended up shooting the geese out at silver lake and the associated river systems again. The mist was more intense than it had been the day before, so I found that I had a lot of very atmospheric shots with the bright light and steam--in all some very cool stuff. I'd like to do something with these references, especially since the geese are such a unique part of my experience here. I find the goldish light in these shots very appealing as well.