This is one of my prizewinning photos, not many of those, but the cold and icicles reminded me of those days. This was early January 2004. It took 2 days to get this shot with my little Olympus C4000Z. I drove out about 15 miles, set up and took a bunch of shots, got home and found they all were overexposed and had blown highlights! No shooting in RAW in those days but I was already post processing in Photoshop.
So the next day the sun shone again (I had waited for that), I went out, adjusted for the overexposure, got set up and got this shot. I was about 63 at the time, and some rural-type men stopped because they thought I was in trouble, wanted to help. Then I got lost coming home, took a wrong turn and went way out over 30 miles before I got headed the right way again.
I did some more in the freezing cold, Christmas lights in particular, but I have downright envied some hardy types who can trek in terrible condition to get wonderful shots such as the lighthouse photographer did.
