Maine snow
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Lovers
by Erin KrollThe stillness of our warmth / two / together / our love is rooted deep
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taken in the barn. Maine, USA
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Shoppers rush down Main Street as a winter squall fills the sky in Park City, Utah.
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Watsons Crags are in Kosciuszko National Park and in my opinion is the most spectacular alpine ridge line in Australia. On this particular occassion I had spent the day skiing out from Thredbo to camp at the frozen Lake Albina on a spectacular little knoll overlooking the Crags. This shot was taken halfway through dinner at my personal restaurant. The heater at the restaurant was pathetic, but the view… For other shots from this area check out my Kosciuszko gallery. To check out other mountain photographs see my Mountains gallery. 10% of all profits go to the Wilderness Society
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I took this in 2004 on one of my regular X-country ski trips in Kosciuszko National Park. On this trip I forwent the chairlift ride up Thredbo and ascended the Main Range from Dead Horse Gap. As it turned out I ended up camping half way up the ridge and the next morning spied this wonderful Snow Gum (Eucalyptus pauciflora) lit up by the first rays of the morn. Stunning area particularly under the rejuvenating snows of winter. For other shots from this area check out my Kosciuszko gallery. To check out other mountain photographs see my Mountains gallery. 10% of all profits go to the Wilderness Society
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Snow caught in branches.
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Maine snowmobile trail.
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Taken at Portland Head Light in Cape Elizabeth Maine afte a snow storm the night before.
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Blue Lake is in Kosciuszko National Park and takes a day to ski to in winter from either Guthega or Charlottes Pass. The immediate area around Mt Kosciuszko was the only area on mainland Australia high enough to form glaciers in the last ice age. After the glaciers melted the hollows created by these masses of ice formed just four lakes of which the biggest one is Blue Lake. In winter it isn’t very blue of course freezing over completely. The first time I visited the lake was in summer so skiing across it in winter was at first surreal and despite myself slightly disconcerting. The cirque surrounding the lake also forms Australia’s only consistently used and accessable ice climbing area. There are a few areas like Federation Peak in Tassie which are theoretically fantastic for such endeavours but so difficult is access in winter that visits let alone ice climbing is virtually non existent. I took this shot on my second winter trip there which I did by myself in 2003. Arriving early in the afternoon in white out conditions I decided some self education was in order and having just bought a snow shovel for this trip I thought I’d put it through its paces. As a matter of safety it is a standard part of kit for snow touring so you can dig yourself an emergency snow cave if conditions are too bad for a tent. Having never built a snow cave and not wanting to do so for the first time in an emergency I set to work. I found what I thought was a suitable place where the snow was deepest in the lee of a rise and set to work. After a few hours I was wet and cold but the proud creator of a very modest snow cave which I slept in that night. At dinner time it snowed for about ten minutes then abated. Upon awaking the morning I checked the entrance and noticed I’d been snowed in. No problem I got my ski pole out poked an air hole through the snow and went back to sleep. Being used to the silent nature of snow falls I had expected to find a huge dump outside to have created my metre deep burying. After digging myself out I was staggered to see that my previous days footprints hadn’t even filled in with snow and upon contemplation realised that the tiny ten minute snow shower during the previous evenings dinner was all that had fallen. Inexperienced me however had dug my snow cave in the most dangerous spot imaginable, that is where the wind carried it into a drift. Luckily hardly any snow fell because if it had I might not have been around to tell my story. Snow does breathe to a certain depth but once past that it is airtight as four unfortunate snow boarders found out the next year when they perished in a snow cave dug in the same area during a blizzard. Their bodies despite massive searches were not found until the spring thaw revealed them directly underneath where so many searchers had looked. A beautiful but potentially unforgiving environment. For other shots from this area check out my Kosciuszko gallery. To check out other mountain photographs see my Mountains gallery. 10% of all profits go to the Wilderness Society
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A storm has just past and the fluffy snow covers the rocks. A guardian of the coast is about to pass between to other pilars of safety on the way home.
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I visited Lake Albina in September 2004 and stayed for two nights after a memorable day of skiing to get there. If you look carefully you can see my ski trails from my earlier descent from Mt Alice Rawson. Muellers Peak is actually the further peak from this vantage point. The Peak is named after Dr (later Baron) Ferdinand von Mueller who was appointed by Govorner Charles LaTrobe (Govorner of the Port Phillip district, i.e. Melbourne which at that time was part of NSW) in 1853 as govornment botanist. Mueller was very active explorer and undertook numerous expeditions collecting samples and cataloging an enormous proportion of the native flora of south eastern Australia. He is also is responsible according to GeoGecko of being the environmental criminal who introduced one of Australia’s most hated and verdant plant pests the blackberry to ‘provide food and control erosion’. On new years day 1855 he climbed Mt Kosciuszko (2228m) and would certainly have seen if not climbed the near by peak which later bore his name. Muellers Peak is the equal 14th highest peak in Australia and is 2125m high. For other shots from this area check out my Kosciuszko gallery. To check out other mountain photographs see my Mountains gallery. 10% of all profits go to the Wilderness Society Watsons Crag Sunset was taken the evening before this dawn shot.
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Thought I’d post one of my rare shots from the other side of the lens. This campsite is at Lake Albina at the head of Lady Northcotes Canyon which is a days skiing away from Thredbo in Kosciuszko National Park, NSW. When I got to Albina to my surprise I found a small patch of snow free ground which although extremely exposed to the weather I never the less decided to camp on. Avoiding the usual icy cold tent floor I thought would be worth the potential hazard of camping in such an exposed spot. The view was also incredible my Muellers Peak and Watsons Crag Sunset pictures being taken from this vantage point. As it turned out the weather that night was very mild (for the mountains). The next night however was a different story with the wind picking up I thought I’d try and stick the campsite out by building a snow wall to protect the tent. I hadn’t built one of these before I’d just seen them in books and after a lengthy construction program I was fairly happy with my tent high, 5m long wall. I had dinner and retired to the tent upon which the wind just got stronger and stronger and stronger shaking the tent like a leaf and causing an enormous amount of noise as the nylon fluttered violently back and forth. After putting so much effort into building my wall I felt committed to sticking it out and didn’t think I’d find an area that would be much more sheltered than this anyway and besides that moving is an enormous hassle so I stayed put. This attitude of course simply prolonged the inevitable and finally at 1:30am I got sick of not sleeping because of my gyrating tent and decided to go to the effort of packing up all my gear and finding a more sheltered spot. When I got out of the tent I was staggered to see that the warm low land air (it didn’t feel real warm to me but the snow wall seemed to disagree), had completely melted my wall. All that was left was a few white remnants on the ground cover. Going to the lee side of the knoll, a scant 200m from my former location I found a sheltered and windless spot on a steep slope, the wind was non existant, I couldn’t believe it. After about an hour digging a snow platform on the steep slope and setting up my tent and sleeping gear I finally flopped into bed quickly succumbing to the effects of the sandman. The next morning was a complete white out so thick that shortly after donning my pack and skis I skiied straight off a snow cliff oblivious to its existance until I found myself with my face in the snow pack on top of it and my skiied feet a few feet in altitude above that. Needless to say I was a little more careful after that. When I reached Rawsons Pass just below Mt Kosciuszko the wind was so strong that all I had to do to continue was spread my arm and let the wind blow me along at a good jogging pace. From here on, the white-out conditions necessitated great care in navigating over this almost featureless expanse. It is quite bizarre to walk in daylight yet for the light to offer about as much help as a moonless night. In these conditions I seemed to loose all perspective on how far I’d travelled and in what direction I was going. I combined the twin errors of thinking I was going in a straight line, when I was in fact gradually following the few exposed boulders and the lie of the land through an arc of ninety degrees, with optimistic distance estimates; how far I wish I’d travelled as opposed to how far I had travelled. With this false data on my side I proceeded to interpret the lie of the land with the contours on my map in all sorts of wonderful ways making myself thoroughly confused in the process. Eventually however I sorted it out and found a few known landmarks eventually dropping below the cloud cover and descending the correct spur off the Ramshead Range down to Dead Horse Gap with an appropriately large blister from my (at the time) hired XC ski boots. The cycle of mountain weather seems to always guarantee horrible conditions in payment for any good weather. The fine weather however results in some of the most sublime experiences a nature lover could desire, well worth the hardships required to enjoy them. For other shots from this area check out my Kosciuszko gallery. To check out other mountain photographs see my Mountains gallery. 10% of all profits go to the Wilderness Society
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caribou maine / taken with my 35mm camera a few years ago Starting my Scenery book and looking through photos.
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Salisbury NH
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Blue Lake is an area I love and have been to many times so I was very saddened today to read that the ice cliffs in the background of this shot have claimed a life. My prayers go out to the family… Person missing after Kosciuszko avalanche / 14:00 AEST Sun Aug 17 2008 / By ninemsn staff / At least one person is missing after an avalanche in a popular ice-climbing area in Kosciuszko National Park. / The accident occured after an ice cornice — an overhanging piece of ice on a snow drift — collapsed at around 2pm, a police spokeswoman said. / Emergency services were called shortly after and are now on site at Blue Lake in NSW where a snow line search has begun. / A SouthCcare helicopter is currently searching the area and police rescue are on their way to the site. Avalanche fatality ‘just bad luck’ / 21:29 AEST Sun Aug 17 2008 / A young skier killed under an avalanche of snow and ice high in the Kosciuszko National Park was the victim of “bad luck”, an experienced rescuer said. The skier was one of three men to die in separate skiing accidents in the Perisher Valley area on Sunday, police said. The man killed in the avalanche was a 24-year-old from the Blue Mountains town of Wentworth Falls. He was one of five people skiing at Blue Lake, near Charlotte Pass, when it’s believed a collapsed segment of hardened snow known as an ice cornice gave way. Emergency service crews were called in shortly after 1.30pm (AEST). The area is a known ice-climbing site and it was initially thought the man was a climber. His body was found about 5.45pm, police said. Snowy Mountains State Emergency Services worker Les Threlfo said that leaving aside the Thredbo landslide, which killed 18 people in 1997, this was the first death in “30-odd years” from an avalanche in the Snowy Mountains. “It’s very icy where the skiers have been,” Mr Threlfo told AAP. “The area has an ice base and the snow sometimes isn’t stable. “I’d say he’s been there, it (the snow and ice) has rolled and he’s gone. “It was a particularly good day up here. This is just bad luck, I presume.” The man’s body had been recovered, he said. Eight members of the SES’s alpine rescue team, using four skidoos, arrived at the site mid-afternoon to search for the man. They were joined by NSW Police members and a NSW Ambulance special casualty access team. A rescue helicopter was at the scene within minutes of the alarm being raised. Police will prepare a report for the coroner. A 59-year-old man from the Sydney suburb of St Ives died when he skied into a tree on a run at Blue Cow called Outer Limits about 12.15pm, police said. Just three hours later a second man, 48, of the Snowy Mountains town of Jindabyne, also died when he hit a tree while skiing. He had successfully completed the steep Olympic run but lost control soon after. For other shots from this area check out my Kosciuszko gallery. To check out other mountain photographs see my Mountains gallery. 10% of all profits go to the Wilderness Society Had a bit of an adventure at Blue Lake that you can read about here or follow the picture link below.
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Acrylic on canvas.
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this is a close up of a snow sculpture …yes its is completely made of snow. / every year we have a festival in february called “festtival du voyageur”... / and people come to winnipeg to do the snow sculptures…
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Taken at Portland Headlight, Cape Elizabeth Maine. Also known as Fort Williams.
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A series of very old photographs taken by my great-grandfather and grandfather who founded Souvenir Photo Studio in the early 1900’s, in Radville, Saskatchewan. My father is driving the lead John Deere, followed by his younger brother. / This is circa 1950 or so and all the buildings in evidence are still standing.
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This image was made at Pemaquid lighthouse. The lighthouse stands on a high rocky promontory. These wonderful snow patents, are created by the wind blowing across the point. The image was made just after sunrise, a low angle of the sun created strong shadows to emphasize the Patton. Nikon 200 f-stop 22 shutter speed 1/4 focal length 15 ISO 100 / Tripod Polarizer Pemaquid Lighthouse, State of Maine 1/15/09
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This old truck sits across from Frisbee’s Market, the oldest family owned market in Maine.
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These wolves,attentive to a sound in the late afternoon after / the new fallen snow. / Oil on canvas.$700.
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Zoom!
by Patty GrossRiding home late one night through the Maine woods, I noticed the lights of the car ahead and the feeling of the world zooming past me.
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a late night drive through the Maine woods in winter…..t’was a particularly icy and snowy night.
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