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Adventure Photography

Posted on | January 7, 2008 | 6 Comments

Adventure Photographer Enjoying Fresh Snow on Mount Baldy, Angeles National Forest, California Adventure Photographer Enjoying Fresh Snow on Mount Baldy, Angeles National Forest, California

My brother and I went up to Mount Baldy this morning after a big storm yesterday. As mentioned a few blog posts ago, I wanted to get some sledding photos. Well the snow was so pristine that we were unable to get the (cheap) sled moving for the most part because we sank into the snow every time we sat on it. I did get it moving twice and wiped out: camera included… The sledding photos sucked because I couldn’t keep the snow and water off the lens in addition to fogging up but it was quite an experience nonetheless. I probably will have use a polarizer next time also in order to get a decent motion blur in my images.

I hadn’t seen so much snow on trees before and it was amazing. Someday I will probably get snow shoes in order to better take advantage of the winter photography opportunities and not suffer frostbite in the process. This photo is of my brother, Eric holding the sled, my tripod and backpack.

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6 Responses to “Adventure Photography”

  1. Bernie Kasper
    January 8th, 2008 @ 2:45 pm

    Looks like you had fun trying to get the shot Richard, it must have been beautiful to see all that fresh snow.

  2. Richard
    January 8th, 2008 @ 3:19 pm

    Thanks Bernie. Oh yeah, the snow was almost shocking at first. We started seeing snow around 4,000 ft, then at the village at 5,000 it looked icy but not super snowy. But driving past the village it almost instantly became pure white everywhere.

  3. Anonymous
    January 9th, 2008 @ 6:42 am

    Hi Richard,

    That’s great that you are getting to spend time in the snow. Other than the little snowfall we had at our house, we haven’t been in it. Between the Internet problems, road closures, bad weather and the holidays, we haven’t had a chance to get up there. We are looking forward to snowshoeing, cross country skiing and photographing very soon!

    As you have probably heard, we have no shortage of snow in the Tahoe area. We got about 10 feet of snow during the series of storms we just had!

    I hope you didn’t cause harm to your camera or lens when you wiped out! Yeah, a polarizer would help a bunch to get the good “slow mo” shots. And snowshoes do come in very handy for winter shooting as well.

    Happy winter shooting!

    Sherri
    http://www.sherrimeyer.com/Blog

  4. Richard
    January 9th, 2008 @ 7:36 pm

    wow, 10 feet of snow is a lot and I’m sure will last for a while. We had 2 feet in the local mtns and I’m sure that Big Bear had a lot more. Today it was more ice than snow since I guess the snow melted already.

  5. Anonymous
    January 10th, 2008 @ 9:58 am

    That is cool – looks like Alaska! Heard to believe this is So Cal.

  6. Richard
    January 10th, 2008 @ 10:18 am

    Global warming Ron. Desert sagebrush coming soon to a state near you. :-o

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