Well looks like most of the forecasts were a little off on the snow totals, which is fine by me. The lower snow amount meant less time spent cleaning up.
Not looking forward to the cold temps that are coming tonight though. Spring begins this month, but from the weather we have had lately I think it is going to be a bit late.
We did get a nice sunset over the fresh snow cover we got today.
Here is a shot from my cell phone.
We are preparing for another round of winter weather here in the Mid-Atlantic area.
But it seems that no one can agree on how much we are going to get. Below is snow predictions from 3 sources, Justin Berk, who does his own weather forecasting for Just in Weather #faithintheflakes and the other 2 are local tv stations in Baltimore.
Will be interesting to see who was right. My point in all this is Mother Nature is Mother Nature, no matter how much we think we can predict her, until she does her damage, we just don’t know.
These predictions are from the 11pm news on 3/2, about 24 hours before the storm.
After a 1, 2 punch of snow storms, I’m wiped from clearing all the snow away.
I’m all for snow, but 2 feet in a 24 hours and cleaning things twice is a bit much. Would have just done it once, but after the big storm that left us with about 16-17 inches we were only supposed to get another inch of snow with the second storm. So I cleared everything after the first storm thinking 1 inch of snow is no big deal. Well that one inch turned into 7-8, so had to go out and clean everything I had just cleared again. 🙁
At least someone can enjoy the snow. This is one of our Corgi’s who is laying down in one of the trenches I dug in the yard so they had somewhere to run. Seems thought that she is more content in just laying down versus running around.
After being down for a few days, I’m back online, yeah!
At first, I was down due to lack of power as I was a self hosted site.
After getting power back, I decided it was time to put my site on a more professional hosting service. So markdoddphotography.com is now proudly hosted on bluehost. It was highly recommended to me and so far has been very easy to set up and use.
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I’m finally back online after being down due to lack of power
With scenes like this I consider myself lucky we weren’t down longer
Been lucky again to have a sale. I do appreciate any purchase that has been made.
This is a picture of the US Naval Academy Insignia/Coat of Arms that is on the wall of the visitors center at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis Md.
I have it labeled as the insignia as not being in the military or associated with the Naval Academy, I had to look it up on the visitors website to see what it was called. I have since been told that it is actually the coat of arms.
My apologies to any Naval Academy personal or graduate if I offended by calling it the wrong thing.
I wish to thank the local buyer from Leroy, NY for purchasing one of my photos.
I’m sure it will look nice on your wall
This is a picture of the US Naval Academy Insignia that is on the wall of the visitors center at the Academy in Annapolis Md.
[update – I’ve been informed that this is technically the Naval Academy Coat of Arms]
I wish to thank the local buyer from Annapolis for purchasing one of my photos.
Nice choice of framing by them, If I do say to myself.
Just a reminder, you don’t have to get the print framed as you can just get the print itself on a variety of media choices, including phone cases now.
I have again been lucky to have another sale of one of my photos.
This is a photo of the rear of a 1963 Corvette that was taken at the GreenMount Station Car show in 2013
Thank you to the buyer from Reese, MI, I hope you like your print when it arrives.
If you can’t tell by now, I’m a big fan of Trey Ratcliff of StuckInCustoms.com. Of his work, his methods and thoughts on photography.
After getting my DSLR camera, a Nikon D80, I was taking family pictures, travel pictures, and many many pictures of my daughters softball teams. I think I had gotten quite good at taking the action shots of the players and enjoyed upping my level of skill.
So after my daughter finished playing softball in high school I started looking around for something else to master with my camera. While looking around I stumbled across Trey’s site and saw the HDR Tutorial and it peaked my interest.
For those who don’t know what HDR is, in its simplest description, it is a way to combine multiple images into one to show the full range of light in the photography similar to what your eye sees. In a single picture taken by any camera, the full range of light captured is alway much less that what your eye is actually able to see as your eyes can see a greater range of light from the dark to the light areas of the scene. Tray’s tutorial describes HDR it in more detail.
So if you are looking for one way to improve on your photography to get more detail into your photos, start where I did and check out the free tutorial.
It’s been rather cold around here in Maryland recently. Yes I know you folks from the North think this is nothing, but for here is it way below our normal temperatures.
I’m trying to stay positive and keep thinking that spring and warm scenes like this are only a few months away
