Snow Tree at La Madre Springs
During the month of June, 2012, Reno Open Studios is featuring a preview of the 2012 visual artists with an exhibit at the Truckee Meadows Community College Main Art Gallery beginning on June 1st, through June 25th. The art work that I selected for the exhibit is entitled "Snow Tree at La Madre Springs". Since I have been asked many times how I got this photo, I decided to give some background information in this blog post.
The weather always seems to take a turn for the worst over Thanksgiving weekend out here in the Southwestern U.S. And this was sure the case when I happened upon the image that I named the Snow Tree at La Madre Springs. I was living on the west side of Las Vegas which was just a quick drive from the Red Rock Canyon Conservation Area when I noticed dark, moisture laden clouds moving in over the Spring Mountains. I grabbed my camera gear and rushed out for possible photos.
It had been snowing at the higher elevations of Red Rock Canyon and the patterns on the cacti made for nice macro photos. I was using a Nikon 50mm macro lens when I saw the outline of the bare trunk of an old dead piñon pine in the distance. A number of factors were involved which forced my decision to take the landscape scene with the macro lens. Heavy, dark clouds were moving in fast, it was snowing harder and I had wandered a good distance from my other camera gear in the Jeep. Realizing that I had just seconds to capture the image, I clicked the shutter with an aperture of f/5.6. I was allowed just two frames before it became so dark I could hardly find my way back to the safety of my vehicle.
When the film was processed and I saw the one frame that turned out well, I was both delighted and surprised at the outcome. The snow was accenting the outline of the tree and the shutter speed just happened to be fast enough to freeze the action of the falling snow but also create a blurred, Monet effect.
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