35 years ago we endured the Blizzard of ’78. One day after that storm our daughter was born. We kinda remember that storm.
For all those enduring 2013′s blizzard, here’s a calmer winter scene from Effingham, New Hampshire.
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As you probably know most of the wallpapers come from my archives, although from time to time I do try to create something new for the upcoming month. I had that in mind for a late July camping trip we made up near the Canadian border in the Great North Woods of New Hampshire. I had several candidates in mind but this one sorta edged the others out…
In this particular case, the photograph was made on August 1st (well perhaps a few minutes before). Unfortunately (?) I was well out of range of the internet so you had to wait until August 2nd to see it… August’s image is the Milky Way setting over Lake Francis in northern New Hampshire.
If you like the above image you can download it to your computer and use it as your desktop or tablet wallpaper. A few of the common screen sizes are available:
Download the 1024×768 version here. (Perfect for your iPad)
Download the 1280×1024 version here.
Download the 1680×1050 version here.
Technical stuff:
Canon 5D Mark II, 16-35mm f/2.8L at 16mm, 25 seconds at f/2.8, ISO 1600.
Processed with Lightroom 3, WB 3300K, +1.5 stops, clarity +30, vib -20, lens profile corr, luminance and noise filters.
A couple of years ago we took a trip down a part of the Kangamangus Highway in New Hampshire looking for interesting winter scenes. While we don’t have the terrain of that countryside here in Massachusetts we pretty much have the same snowfall this year — and we’re about to get hammered again. We have icicles though, but they tend to be hanging off of houses rather than gorges. I recalled this scene while driving by those houses.
These are fairly impressionistic images, more heavily processed in Lightroom than I normally do – but I wanted to bring out the cold feeling of the blue in the ice and waterfall pool.
Technical: Canon 1D Mark 2, 24-70mm f/2.8L at 32mm, 1/50 at f/8, ISO 200.
Lightroom 3: Lens profile correction (flattens it out nicely), fill 40, blacks 19, clarity +100 (yes, over the top), vibrance +20, aqua and blue saturation +100. (Reference the “before” image below.)
