The morning sun highlights a few lingering airborne snowflakes after this year’s first valley snowfall.
Using a telephoto lens to blur the background, I nabbed this shot of an aspen leaf right through our kitchen window in Frisco.
Evening glow on Dillon Reservoir.
Peak 1 towering above Frisco, Colorado.
Hanging on … check the blurred snowflakes hurtling through the air.
On those mornings after the first big valley snowfall, I usually race around like crazy, trying to find a new vantage point to record the magical transformation. Last weekend, I didn’t have to go far. Rain changed to snow early in the morning and the wet aspen leaves and branches in the trees outside our house seemed to catch every flake in a clash of seasons. Since there didn’t seem to be any real urgent reason to go all the way outside, I just brewed another cup of coffee, opened the window all the way and snapped a few dozen frames, hoping for the best. With blurry snowflakes in the background and the wind pushing the leaves around, relied on manual focusing for the two leaf shots in this set.
