Today’s Post by Joe Farace
Getting personal: This past weekend Mary and I awoke to snowfall. This was followed almost immediately by her exclamation, “I’m getting a job in Arizona and moving to Phoenix.”
In some of the posts on my old blog I made some interesting comparisons about the number of sunny days in Miami compared to what is typical for the Denver area. It turns out there isn’t much difference but I also predicted snow was coming and although I’m not a meteorologist, we had the first substantial snow of the season last weekend. Nearby Parker received 6.5 inches and according to my unofficial measurement on my patio, we received about eight inches here on Daisy Hill. By comparison, the Denver area received between four and six inches, depending on where you live and the city typically gets 54 snow days a year, Miami get zero with the US average sitting at 25 days.
The earliest recorded snowfall in Denver was on September 3, 1961. Here in Daisy Hill at an elevation of 6,250 feet, we’re higher than Denver’s famous 5280 feet and often get snow when rain is falling elsewhere, even in Parker. Trivia: The elevation of the entire city of Denver actually varies from 5,130 to 5,690 feet. Because Daisy Hill is at a higher altitude and south of Denver we either get more snow than they do or less—lots more or lots less.
I’ve written about photographing when the weather is not a traditional “Sunny 16” day. And snow is a great time to make photographs when everyone else is warmly ensconced indoors sipping hot chocolate. Just remember, as they say in Groundhog Day: “Okay, campers, rise and shine, and don’t forget your booties ’cause it’s cooooold out there today.”
How I made this photograph: Today’s featured image was shot in Benedict Park when I lived in Northern Colorado and was made with a Fujifilm FinePix S100FS back when I was able to test lots of different kinds of Fuji cameras. It was shot with the camera in direct monochrome mode with a Av mode exposure of 1/450 sec at f/8 and ISO 200, lens used was not recorded in the EXIF data.
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