Yesterday morning, I hiked up a nearby mountain to the summit. WInter storm Izzy made quite an impression on the Blue Ridge Mountains with snow, sleet, freezing rain, and more snow (our road is still impassable!). There were high winds, it was about 2 degrees with the windchill, and there was about a foot of snow on the ground. The trail, which is normally moderate, had rhododendrons that were so laden with ice that I had to crawl under them about 5 or 6 different times. As a result, I could not reach my favorite sunrise spot in time, but had to settle for my second favorite spot. Was really pooped after I got home but very glad I went! Here are a couple of images I liked. Both are single exposures with no filters. Clouds were moving really fast so I stopped down to F16 and forgot about focus stacking. These are on tripod with Fuji GFX 100S and GF 23/4. Comments and criticisms welcome, as always.
