Yesterday's Cool Look To Donner Lake
There was a break in the big snowstorm yesterday afternoon. It had been dumping all day, a decent amount of snow piled up fast. I took the opportunity to make some tea, grab the camera, and walk across the street to Donner Lake in order to enjoy a little outdoor time.
When I got to the lake, I was surprised and pleased to see these cone shaped snow covered rocks! The cone look made them a bit unique compared to most snow covered rocks. Also, the lake was coated with a slushy slurpy layer of snow. The whole scene looked kind of surreal so I fired off many photos and even waited around until sunset, with hopes for a fiery colorful sky.
Sunset did not fire off quite like I had hoped, but there was still a bit of warmth to the clouds. It was beautiful out!
These were all shot with the Canon 5DS R and a 24-105mm lens. All handheld, no tripod or lens filters. The camera settings varied but the shutter was always 1/200 of a second. I like using a fast shutter speed when shooting handheld in order to ensure that the image will be nice and sharp if I print it up big.
The image above was looking to the east, the image below was looking to the west toward Donner Summit.
Okay, this was weird... I found this hole below with a little feather floating in it. I have no idea how it formed, or if the feather had something to do with the snow not sticking there. But it looked very interesting and was very photo worthy.
As you can see above, the snow on the surface of the lake was more of a slushy slurpee and not frozen solid. I tried going out with the camera again this morning for a sunrise shoot, but the slush had melted and the scene was no longer really photo-worthy in my opinion (see the photo below).
It was a fun photoshoot yesterday! I spent a lot of time out there walking up and down the shoreline. I shot many different compositions, but these were my favorites.
Oh! And earlier in the day, while running errands, I saw this Tesla Cybertruck in the wild! I've seen one driving around town before, but this was the first time seeing it in a snowstorm. I've been told Teslas handle the snow fairly well with their all wheel drive. This one had cables on the rear tires, so it was probably driving like a tank, no slipping and sliding.
Thanks for looking and I hope you all had a great weekend too!
Scott Thompson
Scott Shots Photography
www.ScottShotsPhoto.com
Edit: Here's a Youtube Short with the photos.
For that hole to form all I can think off is temperature on that spot, air perfectly blowing to the moment snow was falling or an air bubble, crazy how perfect nature can be, all those frozen rocks remind me of minions in the snow 😅, the cyber truck on the snow looks so cool specially with the chained tires ✌️
It was a weird thing to see. The bubble makes sense, but who knows... Glad you liked seeing that cybertruck!
Can you tell me if there is a different between snow and ice?
What you have on your hand looks like ice
I’ve never seen a snow before and that’s why I’m asking
Anyway, the pictures are cute
So... in my hand is snow that fell on the lake. So much of it fell at once that it turned into a slushy mix on the lake instead of melting right away. It's not really ice, as that would be a lot harder. Have you ever had an Icee? It had a similar consistency to that. The snow that landed on the rocks was still nice and soft snow.
Beautiful snow pyramids.
They were great to see!
I was wowed by the snow pyramids and the whole scenic beauty, and I have wondered since, how that hole is not frozen like the rest 🤔
Glad you liked seeing those! That hole makes no sense to me, but it sure was cool to see!
You are right! Don't think, just admire 😊
The snowy mountains in the distance are very beautiful!
Yes! There is a ton of snow up there now, after this storm. Higher elevations got dumped on.
That tesla truck is looking sexy in this snow.
Oh yeah!!!
I thought so too.
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Everything is just looking so beautiful, snow photos always light up my day, the white looks so pure, so ethereal.
Glad you like that @edith-4angelseu! The snow makes me happy as well.
Cool shots. I like the little peephole through the ice and the feather. Wierd. I like the cones of snow on the rocks. I always like it when snow piles up like that. I have a picture of a birdbath with like 2 ft of snow piled up like that ... somewhere. It was from when we lived in Minneapolis many years ago.
Thanks @steven-patrick! My son has a reasonable theory about that hole... He thinks a bird may have landed on the slush, but when it noticed that it was not ice, it immediately took off, leaving one feather behind. It's a reasonable thought! It is always nice when the snow piles up.
I'm worried about the snowstorm,
but it's nice to be able to capture some beautiful nature.
There was definitely a lot of traffic accidents and problems. But if you know how to drive in it and have a proper 4 wheel drive vehicle, the snow is great! I love it.
These photos are beautiful! I love the mixture of snow and ice. What camera do you use? I love photography but I am more of an iphone photographer but would love to get in professional photography.
Glad you like them! I use a Canon 5DS R and sometimes a Samsung cell phone for the selfies.
This is really looking so beautiful. I am just imagining that this type of places will really be so cold
It was cold indeed! But I was dressed appropriately, so it wasn't a problem.
Glad you liked that!
In winter, this water turns into ice and people walk around a lot on it and enjoy it, but even here a person has to be careful.
Well... Some of the lakes around here freeze solid enough to walk on. But this was a wet slush on the surface, not solid, no walking on it.
Wondered to see cone shape snow at the Doner lake. You choose tough condition just like previous place. But wonderful job, you captured amazing clicks.
Those cones were cool!!! It was actually a fairly easy shoot, since it was just across the street from my house. Glad you liked those!
These are really amazing shots. Here where I lived, it is difficult for us to experience snow period or weather
Thank you @precab! I understand, as I used to live in Los Angeles where there was no snow. But I love it up here, we have challenging but beautiful winters!