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#winterwonderland

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Geoffrey Giebelhaus

It's funny how we will sometimes pass by a location a dozen times and not give it a second thought until the right light or conditions present.

While snowshoeing last week in the #Vancouver #Mountains I came to a spot freshly covered in snow, that I've never seen without its usual trail. I would never have thought to take a photo here had it not been for the fresh snowfall covering all indication that a path laid here.

A series of snow and rhime covered trees stand on a freshly snowed hillside in the North shore mountains of Vancouver. The sun just breaking through the clouds cast subtle shadows. And the clouds in the background whip up with the winds and temperature change caused by the Sun. Creating drama in the sky. A distant snow covered rockledge and peak can be seen to the far right. And an indication of the far valley below can be seen briefly between some of the larger trees.
#photography#LPW#landscapephotography
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Jeff
Some incredibly vibrant views from my driveway. While on the previous post we were talking about the greens and purples of the Aurora, in that last photo there is a huge curtain of red above the green arc.

Both these are caused by atmospheric oxygen, but the reds are from oxygen that is higher in the atmosphere. When these gases get hit by the charged particles from the solar wind, they vibrate to expel the positive charge and return to a neutral state. Depending on the amount density of the gasses (lower in the atmosphere has more, higher less) the vibration has a different wavelength that our eyes perceive as light. So reds are happening about 200km in the air with the greens happening about 100km up.
The reds can be somewhat difficult to see with your naked eye but in instances like the second photo they are very vivid to the earthly observer.

#aurora #auroraborealis #nature #nightsky #alaska #northernlights #gooutside #earthsbeauty #lookup #astrophotography #winterwonderland
#winterwonderland
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Geoffrey Giebelhaus

This weekend I had a mind shift. See, for the last year and half I've been in a funk. And, for the last 6 months, it's been enough of a funk that I've barely taken a single photo on my camera, let alone edited one. This weekend broke that spell. Not only did I get out and shoot, but I was excited to shoot, AND excited enough to want to edit the images as soon as I got home.

Here's the first of those images.

A lone tree stands heavily covered in snow, rhime, and ice, with its tip bent from the weight. The curved hill it's on is perfectly smooth after a recent snowfall. The mid ground completely obscured by heavy cloud and fog, but, in the distance the sun has broken through the clouds to light up the distance hillside. Revealing a forest of similar trees coated in heavy white snow.
#photography#landscapephotography#vancouver
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