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12-11-07
Suppose I should have at least a short little write-up on this storm since it wasn't a TOTAL dud. GFS had us pegged at 1.15" and things were looking very nasty for a large part of the day. I was seriously thinking I wasn't going to work the next day expecting Quad City-wide power outages with over an inch of ice. Power lines are only designed to take on 1/2", so if this would have happened, you'd be one in a million type of lucky to have power. So, got up around 4:00 in the morning as I always do and things were already looking pretty icy. The pine tree in the back driveway was already iced over and weighted down pretty well. Again, since I didn't take very many pictures, and the ones I did aren't anything to write home about, I might as well fill this page in somehow. So, here's the first shot of the day, about 4:40 a.m. as head for work.
Now I'm at work, a little after 7. By this time it is around 33° and regular rain is falling. It's still freezing, but not as well as before.
So, little glazing is occurring, and I'm hoping temperatures will soon drop to turn things interesting. Lunchtime comes around and I head to a park in Hampton (can't think of the name right now) for a few shots. By this time I wasn't impressed at ALL. Scenery was a little cool, but nothing close to what I was expecting.
I was trying to shield the lens from the rain and my thumb got in the way. Oops. Ruined a prize-winning photograph. Darn.
In some places, 1/2" was pretty much the extent of it. By now temps are around 35 and show ZERO signs of changing. Ice is already starting to melt all around. If it had been ice the entire night/morning, we would have been pretty screwed right around now.
Later on that night. Yep, good stuff. Interesting, exciting. We had one more small round of freezing rain later in the night but nothing special at all. A lot of the ice had already melted and I saw zero damage.
This is the next night. I figured I'd try and get out to get something since it still looked pretty cool. I wish I would have had the camera during the day when the sun was out. It was a pretty spectacular scene.
Quickly ran out of ideas so I just ran back home. But, being dissatisfied with the TWO shots I took while I was out, I wanted to get something else. As I was pulling in the driveway, I noticed that tree pretty lit up by oncoming headlights and it looked pretty neat. Naturally, my camera couldn't pick it up exactly how I wanted. It was a pretty bright scene while standing there.
Pointed back toward the house.
...aaaaaand back to the highway. That was an ambulance going by right here. The lights weren't on but he was absolutely flying.
So, really didn't too creative at all here. My motivation has just been down in the dumps lately. Hopefully I'm not losing interest in photography. Normally I'd be out every night looking for something new to shoot. I don't know if work is just plain burning me out or what. But anyway, all the above pictures were taken around the house. Pretty boring, I know. I have a small Christmas tree in my room for some reason and I wanted to take a long exposure shot at f/22 because I was again bored. So, this pretty much concludes the most non-interesting entry I think I've ever had on this site. Oh well...
