Locked at Home

Living in northeastern, USA, snow is a common, hapless event. Just recently, on March 4-5th, was the big storm of the season. And it's quite late too, because it's in March, the end of winter.  We always get at least one to two big storms a year, where it snows close to a foot. But this year, this was the one and only nasty storm. Named Thor, the storm came on a Wednesday night and vanished by midday Thursday. That meant, no school Thursday and Friday because it was apparently too icy on the roads, along with the 7-9 inches of snow on the ground.  

The snow was a little wet because it wasn't very very cold. Which meant that the snow turned to water on the windows quite quickly. And actually, I tried to take pictures of outside, but I couldn't get the camera to focus outside because of the droplets on the window. So, why not take pictures of something it can focus on? This was taken at a slant, meaning that the lens was closer to the window on the left side, over looking onto the right side. 

This is just about the same picture as above. Except, I didn't angle the camera. It's just a straight view of the droplets. I think it looks cool because the droplets are very distinct and sharp. It's not smothered over the window and neither is it in icy chunks.

It looks like there are more droplets doesn't it? I would say this is more of an illusion. I backed up just a bit, which allowed the camera to focus on the net as well. And now, you can see that there are three layers: the window with the droplets, the net underneath, and then the landscape outside. 

I tried and tried to get a shot of the snow falling. I wasn't so sure on how to make the camera focus on the snow and not the trees in the back. All I know was to at least keep the camera on action mode, so that it could capture quick movements without blur. I captured the flakes here, but I'm still not sure how I did it.

This shot is just weirdly unique. How so?  I did use a filter on the camera, which allows me to get the pictures to be vibrant and more sharp pictures. But it's unnaturally sharp. You can see the exact figure of the snowflakes, like little specks. Compared to the previous picture, where there is less definition on the snowflakes, this one has a lot more. 

This is the same tree as above. I centered this one more, leaving out the tree on the right out of the picture. Then, once again, I tried to capture the snow. Now this tree was very far from where I was standing, so I did use my bigger lens. Which might have made a difference, because there is more snow in the distance between me and the tree. Which then would have let the camera focus on the snow in between instead of the tree. Again, I'm not sure how it worked, but it did somehow. Well, I'll have to wait until next winter to experiment on snowfall because winter is almost over now. I'm betting this was the last storm of the season. Time for spring!