Winter Storm 2025, & Previous Weeks
With the onset of shorter days and a reluctance to try my hand at night photography I’ve lapsed both in my photography practice (not entirely) and posting. Some other factors have contributed but I haven’t really gone out more than a couple times a month since October. I reconnected with my camera a bit after the holidays when a rogue snowstorm blustered its way through the midwest. This past Sunday, as President Carter passed away, the storm opened with a volley of sleet and freezing rain, which sometimes would alter to snow, but then became freezing rain and snow together, then snow and sleet, and so on. That night after a lull it gifted us a much more pleasant, soft snowfall of many inches, I think 9” total for the metro area.
50mm, f/16
This was taken on Sunday at Arsenal and Grand, long before things got out of hand.
I’ve gone out for brief, intentional shoots a few times since it fell and might do so again tomorrow evening, possibly downtown if I’m feeling plucky. I haven’t near done it justice or seen all I would like—for some reason I feel inclined to shoot around the hospitals. Maybe I have the blizzard episode of ER on my mind.
50mm, f/16
50mm, f/16
You might say that George Bernard Shaw was touched with the spirit of Capability Brown. You might say that if, for example, you recently watched a British murder mystery show where Capability Brown—whose name is so delightful it bears repeating—was mentioned and you then geeked out on him and the history of English gardens.
50mm, f/16
50mm, f/16
I took the wrong approach with this. I’d thought about swinging by some night to see about shooting that red neon circle in HDR and figured it would make a nice contrast with the snow, but by the time I got here I was freezing and just shot this one unflattering angle—and from way too far away.
50mm, f/9
Early December, Tower Grove Park
85mm, f/11
Missouri Botanical Gardens toy train display.
85mm, f/7.1
A man and his keytar. Cherokee Street Print Festival.
50mm, f/7.1
50mm, f/9
Previous snowstorm, early December.
50mm, f/9
50mm, f/9
50mm, f/9
50mm, f/9
50mm, f/9
