Happy New Year's Eve everybody! It sure was a cold day today, so this evening I'm sharing a cold sunset photo. When the rocks along the shoreline get coated with ice I think they look like eggs, so I call this "Sunset Ice Eggs". Hard to believe tomorrow is 2018 already!
The cold is pretty brutal out there today. My car was reading minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit on the way to work and on top of that it is very windy. According to the forecast the winds are gusting to 30 MPH and the wind chill values are ranging from minus 30 to minus 40 degrees. I stopped a couple of places on the way to work to take some pictures and in one of those places I could only stand to be outside the car for a minute or two because the wind and cold were so brutal. If you can find a spot protected from the wind, however, it's not that bad. The location along the Bay Road in Grand Portage where I made this photo had some pretty good protection from trees behind me and I had no problems standing outside to make some photos (keep in mind I was bundled up for the occasion). It is beautiful out there today but if you head outside make sure you have plenty of layers on!
Sunburst Saturday! Here's another cold, sunny image for today. An icy, frosted cliff along the Lake Superior shoreline in Grand Portage, MN.
It's a sunburst kind of a day! Clear and cold, beautiful blue sky and blazing sun. And ice! Lots of ice coating the rocks along the shoreline!
Flowers of frost on the Lake Superior shoreline. If you look closely you can see hundreds if not thousands of tiny ice bubbles layered beneath the frost flowers. Some of them even look like agates!
Sea smoke, clouds and sunlight make for a surreal image on a minus 20 degree morning on the Lake Superior shoreline in Grand Portage, MN.
Minus 20 degrees on the morning of December 27, 2017 on the Lake Superior shoreline in Grand Portage, MN. I was going for lens flare on this one and got one of the coolest lens flares I've ever seen!
