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A Snowy Thursday

February 5, 2021
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Thursday Afternoon in Neenah from Jalanlee on Vimeo. Thursday in February in Wisconsin and its snowing. Imagine that! Tomorrow morning will be busy clearing the snow but for now I enjoyed the beautiful snowfall. Here is a a short capture of that beauty. The music is a live loop I recorded. It was done with Ableton Live 10, Ableton Push 2, my Roland Juno keyboard and my Gretsch Electromatic guitar. Just a 4 chord progression with a little playing around. You can see more of my video work on my Video Page

Frosty Morning on the Wiouwash Trail

February 3, 2016
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A cold and frosty morning on the Wiouwash State trial - Neenah. Last night it was really damp and the frost was everywhere this morning. And then around luch time the snow came in and dropped 4-6 inches. I took this before work and you can see the mist hanging in the air. As always I over exposed by about 1/2 a stop to get the snow to white. I also did a bit of burning in photoshop to smooth out the trial. Canon 5d MkIII | Canon 100mm macro f/2.8 | 1/100 sec at f/16 See all of my…

Cold and Dark

January 29, 2016
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End of January and not much sunlight this year. I like the first snow and the early Winter but February starts to get to me! Seems like it is happening early this year. January is normally sunny... This was the view from Kimberly Point yesterday and kind of sums up the whole month. Another snowy picture so I set the exposure for 2/3 stop over to compensate for the whiteness. Canon 5d MkIII | Canon 16-35 f/4 | 1/320 sec at f/11

Two Bridges in Winter

January 27, 2016
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Four inches of fresh snow last night and everything is clean and beautiful. I went out to get some macro (close up) photos with my new 100mm lens. Ended up doing some landscapes instead. Too much snow to climb through so I stuck to the parking lots and roads. Of course, that didn't prevent me from stepping into a deep water filled rut! Nothing like a shoe full of water to wake one up! Snow pictures are often difficult as your camera will fight you for the exposure. The camera thinks the world is grey and so makes the snow…

Little Winter Tree

January 25, 2016
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We were given a little tree this year. A young friend had raised the tree from just a tiny little shoot and it was growing too big for a pot. She gave it to us and we planted it in our back yard. We put some Christmas lights on it this year and have left the lights burning since. I took this picture on an -8 F night and the little tree brought some light and love into our back yard. Canon 5d mkIII | Canon 70-200 f/2.8 L II | 200mm | 1/25 sec at f/2.8

Pine Needles

January 20, 2016
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Pine needles in the snow by 8 foot falls. There are a couple of things to notice in this picture. First, the water has a nice silkyness. This is achieved by setting a slow shutter speed which blurs the movement of the water. I took this in manual mode and set the ISO to 100 and an f/16 aperture to both limit the light and to get a good depth of field. The shutter speed was set to 1/5 of a second which indicated an overexposure of about 1 stop. Why the overexposure? The camera sees the world as grey…

Foggy January

January 15, 2016
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January has been an adventure! Rain, warm, snow and bitter cold. Woke up this morning to 27 degrees after below zero all week. Fog everywhere. Took this on my way to work this morning. Some ice shoves on Lake Winnebago along with some thin patches from the rain. Fog obscures the opposite shore. Canon 5d mkIII | Canon 16-35 f/4 L | 16mm @ f/13 | 1/320 sec | ISO 1000 You can check this photo out on my 500px.com Page https://500px.com/photo/136273295/foggy-january-by-jalan-lee

Let It Snow

January 11, 2016
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A new year and a new lens. My new Canon 100mm f/2.8 IS USM L Macro lens arrived and I am getting to know it. Wow! This lens is sharp! The stabilization works really well and allows for a lower ISO handheld (which gives lower digital noise). I "lost" my macro lens when I sold my beloved Canon 7D and am really happy to have that capability back. What is a macro lens you ask? Simply, it is a lens that allows you to get really close so you can make small things magnified in the picture. The…

Winter Waterfalls

January 3, 2016
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Winter in Marinette County, Wisconsin. Dave's Falls, Eight Foot Falls and a bend in the Pike River. Click on any photo to see full size.