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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 251952" data-attributes="member: 9240">2014-021:Well, in a 365 there are going to be bad weather days with weather you wish you could capture if the elements would just cooperate, so I woke up saying, "Yes!!  It's going to be a snowflake day!!", only to have every snowflake I captured be nothing more than a bizarre little ice formation with nothing resembling a 'flake' outside of the photographer.  So I set about trying to capture some birds landing on the snowy handrails of our deck, only to realize that 2 Dark Eyed Juncos getting nabbed by a Sharp-shinned Hawk in 2 days would be enough to keep them away.  And given that ongoing blizzard conditions coinciding with a work day full of meetings (not to mention an issue with the NJ DMV that has my undies in a bunch) have me grounded, what you get at the end of my 3rd week of shooting this year-long experiment is this obvious throw-away of what I would have thought was a rather cool pattern of snow on a milk crate turned squirrel feeder on the deck had I still been in high school.See y'all tomorrow.  This is what one does for a $50 gift card.[ATTACH=full]68342[/ATTACH]PS - if you want to know what I mean by "squirrel feeder", they're too smart to want to really come in when I have a D800 set up with a remote, but my wife will feed them peanuts but doesn't want the Blue Jays to grab them all, so they go into a container that is now protected by the crate, which must be navigated by going through a single entrance protected by strings and washers.  Very Indiana Jones.(note - photo from last year, making the one above necessary)[ATTACH]68343[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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