As I work on putting my studio and gallery together, I have been looking through the 83 photos I took while doing that project and forgot how many wonderful photos I had the opportunity to take. So I decided on trying it again. From March 20, 2013 to June 21, 2013 (or 93 days of our spring season) I will take a nature photo a day. I have no idea if I will be able to see this project to the end, put I am going to try.
So, Day 1: March 20, 2013. COLD. SNOW. March has been a beast of a month this year. Temperatures have not climbed any higher than 35 degrees and snow storms continue to batter the land. This is the time of year where cabin fever sets in at a fierce pace. Year after year you count on March to bring the temperatures into the 40s, rain instead of snow, and the emergance of buds and greenery. There has been none of that. NOTHING. I am beginning to think Mother Nature has forgotten about us and that it's offically spring.
I knew that I wanted the first photograph of this project to be a sunrise photo and as luck would have it this morning's sky was clear and bitterly chilly (-11 degrees). I knew where I could catch a good sunrise photo and that it would require me to drive 20 miles East and tredge through thigh-high snow drifts but with the temperature well beyond chilly, I mentally backed out about a half dozen times. But you don't get anywhere in life by backing down from a challenge, so I went. It was COLD (towards the end I could not get my fingers to move to click the shutter button), but there was no wind and as the sun rose above the horizon the eagles swuacked and the crows chattered. It was a good first day.
Morning sunrise on Seven Mile Lake. Oneida County, WI. March 20, 2013. 7:07 a.m.
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