Hedgie Photography

Winter is Coming!

With the snow level dropping to 3500’ and below, I had to go out again and ski. I took a few hundred photos, and after picking out just my favorites, I found myself keeping seventy-seven images. That’s a lot, and it’s getting really hard to weed those down. Today I’m going to put up three stills, and later I’ll post a couple of action shots.

I’ve posted the view from Picture Lake before, but I had to include this shot from Friday. A beautiful sunset reflecting off the western face of Mount Shuksan. I like the colors, and the picture is my new boot-up screen for my laptop.

This is a view of one of my companions hiking back up after skiing down a run I call Goat Throat, after the number of Goat’s I’ve seen there in the past. None this weekend, although we did see some tracks. I like the difficulty in determining the subject of the photo… Is it a picture of a skier, or a picture of his tracks? It’s a picture that really tells a story.

The last photograph for today is a wide-angle shot of the same skier looking out from Artist’s Point. He didn’t even realize I was taking pictures at the time, although later he spotted me and made some really unnatural poses. Frequently the best shots are the ones done without the subject’s knowledge, as is the case here.

With any luck I’ll get some more pictures from this weekend posted tomorrow or Monday. With the upcoming winter, I expect to have trouble keeping up with all the great photographs I take in the mountains.