Snowtime

In a small town where people remember no snow falling in earnest for years. In a place where such driving conditions are quite out of the ordinary...but fortunately not unusual for the region. In a small town not far from a sea that makes the weather...what exactly was I going to write? Mild? It has been dry cold and chilly for a week or so now.

A pleasant surprise for many a people, this. Despite the hardship it brings, it also brings a welcome distraction.

Couldn't miss the chance to go out and snap a few quick shots even though I had almost no preparation, no planning as to where I should go or what I should find there. No tripod. Manually held, so I am not going into other technical details than the fact that I used high Light Sensitivity mostly. About 1600 ISO.

And then I decided to apply some software blur on the images so that they are not too grainy and/or too...all over the place.

It's all near the town center...

...where some teens have decided to duke it out...

And they were quite right about the appropriate thing to do. Cameras get wet. Snow is for touching and throwing. For shoveling and for building everlasting...short-lived simulacra.

No, seriously. You should have a plan about at least keeping your camera out of harm's way when water flies all around you. Like...an umbrella. That was what I was thinking on my way back. A nice, big one, beach type. I could have staked mine into the lower torso of an abandoned solid state water humanoid project.

Rainbow's Snowman comes through the speakers in order to call it a night.

Peace and Snow Rock!

Yours,

Manol