We have snow!
On Wednesday, people in the Seattle area panicked as usual by closing all of the schools despite the fact that we did not get a speck of snow during the entire day. Then came Wednesday night…
While the snow storm here would be a normal occurrence where I grew up in Western New York, here it really is something – the most snow I have seen here since I moved here about eight years ago.
We received about seven inches where we are – still tame to what I was used to back East. However, here they are absolutely unprepared for any kind of snow. They lack the snow plows and salt trucks and most people have no idea how to drive in this type of weather. Also, the hills here can make things interesting.
It was rather funny driving places and seeing tons of people walking – often hauling a sled containing their kids behind them. Many people here are just too freaked out to even get into a car.
The nice thing about the paucity of cars though is we turned the hill on our cul-de-sac into a nice sledding hill.
From a photography standpoint, I have switched back to take kids pictures in RAW format. I had switched to jpg for my kids shots recently due to the huge RAW file sizes of the 5D Mark II. However, due to shots like this it is a better idea to just stay in RAW.
I will probably spend some time later fixing this shot up in Photoshop – but if I took the shot in RAW in the first place it would have been much easier.
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Tags: photography, Seattle, sledding, snow
I know. All those west coasters whine about a little snow. They need to hearten up. Hehe.