Winter is coming

-or- Frozen days ahead

Published on October 18, 2004 By BlueDev In Scenery

So I was playing around with some manipulation of some old photos I took of the results of an ice storm we had a couple years ago. And I was pretty pleased with the artistic effects I was able to pull off. Enjoy.

Comments

Angloesque

on Oct 18, 2004

Those are really cool. Nice job. Makes me look forward to winter.

-A.

SSG Geezer

on Oct 18, 2004

Very pretty dev. I sort of miss winter here.

dharmagrl

on Oct 18, 2004

Those are cool.....I'm looking forward to a milder winter here this year! I can live without 10 feet drifts and sub zero temps....

(I'll post some pics of my experience last winter)

BlueDev

on Oct 19, 2004

I was pretty pleased with how they turned out. I think they would have looked a lot better if I actually had a decent digital camera, but I was just using my cheepo Walmart one. It doesn't focus that well and isn't at a very high resolution. To be honest, that was the main reason I started playing around with the photos. Alone they looked a bit blurry and not too rich in color, so I tweaked them to make them look "artistic" and hide their many flaws.

It was a really stunning effect though. Everything everywhere had a solid 1/8-1/4 inch layer of ice encasing it. Every leaf, every seed, every inch of the road and cars as well. Power was out for a long time thanks to that storm. It was an experience I will never forget.

Phoenixboi

on Oct 19, 2004

Wow beautiful pics!
I've never seen the snow or been in any temperature that has caused anything like that. Ill get to see the snow oneday!

Ravenblack

on Oct 19, 2004

I wish it would snow around here. I feel I'm living in the wrong part of the world, I like to live in someplace with colder climate, maybe somewhere in Sweden or Finland.

BlueDev

on Oct 19, 2004

Raven--Where are you again? I am drawing a blank.

I like a nice 4 season climate. Guatemala only had 2, summer (meaning hot and dry) and winter (meaning hot and soaking wet). I really missed a decent winter after a couple years of that.

Ravenblack

on Oct 20, 2004

I'm from that busy island city in Southeast asia, Singapore.

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