Re: Nighttime and astrophotography with IR

[boblong@xxxxxxxxxxx (Robert Long)]

On Sun, 01 Sep 1996 22:44:47 +0100, Willem-Jan Markerink wrote:

|You'll be amazed!
|
|Hunt for the snow clogged trees instead of foliage. In case of
|skiing, it might mean taking your camera with you for several days
|in vain; but once the snow storm is over, have your camera ready and 
|be prepared to shoot all your HIE on that one day....the best scenery 
|only lasts a single morning!
|You gotta love lousy wheather with these rewards of Mother Nature!
|Snow, freezing rain, fog, they all add to the stunning scenery.

Here's where we country folk have an advantage.  All I have to do is
wade through the new snow out back of the house and I'm in the orchard
or, beyond it, the woods.  As a matter of fact, snowshoes might prove
preferable to skis in new snow.

What do you use?  I have cross-country skis, but I find them woefully
inadequate in terms of control in new snow.  On the other hand,
climbing up hills in downhill skis is an unattractive idea.  I sorely
miss the old-fashioned kind of wood skis with harnesses for leather
boots I was brought up with.  They split the difference between
cross-country and downhill and therefore were far more practical for
wandering about in untracked fresh snow--which is precisely the way I
prefer to ski.  And precisely what I'd do to get the sort of pictures
we're talking about.

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