Indian Peaks Wilderness March 2011

This was actually part of the trail that we were hiking on. It was like a stream that had been frozen over and then snowed on. In reality it was just a road that regularly floods a bit.

I decided to muck around with some aperture settings...

Dialed back the exposure on this one to reduce the bright snow in the middle.

Me pretending to be a photographer, capturing the previous photos.

And we wandered through the frozen forest...

Odd that we would see a sign indicating that parking is only allowed in designated areas here.

Obviously a very bright shot, looking down the road along the town site of Hessie.

Same shot with the EV dialed back by a full -2EV. I was trying to bring out the detail in the clouds. And of course the forest became hills of black.

My first portrait attempt, about 1.5 miles in.

Some tough little rabbit did some serious climbing here!

We veered to the left toward Lost, Woodland, and King Lakes. We intend to return during the summer to loop from King Lake over to Devil's Thumb Pass (which is to the right of this marker).

Screwing around with Aperture again. This is a shot out behind us. Clouds are building up a bit and I wanted to try and capture a bit more definition.

So I increased the aperture. In this case some of the trees stayed reasonably green.

Same shot at 18mm.

Lots of white here. The overcast sky made it rather tough to get good shots with the snow.

Lynn was trying to photograph some birds in that tree. Unfortunately I didn't have time to switch to my zoom lens, so I just snapped her.

A nice big open field. Which of course means wind. You can see snow kicking up in the distance. A few Indian Peaks can be seen farther out.

One of the first uses of my longer lense. Wasn't as sharp as I had hoped, but I wasn't expecting much without a tripod and with all the clouds.

Lynn shooting in the opposite direction of the peaks in the same field.

Sometimes you just have to make your own path.

Two shots of the same thing, different apertures. This was at f/5.6. Reasonable clarity.

This was at f/16. (Drastic change, I know). I actually scaled back the exposure on this in post processing. It looked REALLY washed out.... and still kind of does.

A look! Snow! Imagine that. Actually, there be a stream amongst them thar snow mounds.

And we're going to walk right up to it (and possibly fall right into it).

There were some cool little snow backs around various parts of the creek.

Purposefully mucked with the aperture on this one to blur out the background and close foreground.