Around Billings in the Snow

This semester has been rather snowy, in fact we've had 79 days (at last count) of snow on the ground. For me that has resulted in some fun pictures of scenery, animals and people:

This was taken after a foggy morning when the sun had burned through, but left a layer of frost on everything. Shutter: 1/500, Aperture: f4.0, ISO 80.


Riverfront Park also provided some fun pictures. There is only one patch of water left open on Josephine Lake, so a large flock of water fowl is there. While I was taking pictures about 20 mallards came in and landed on the ice in front of me (left). Almost all of the ducks were mallards or domestics, but there was one pair of American widgeons as well (center). Both those pictures had a shutter speed 1/500 sec, aperture f4.0, and ISO 80. The last picture is of the sun trying to break through the afternoon clouds. Shutter 1/1000, aperture f4.0, ISO 80.




This was taken out at White Aspen on a long awaited sunny day! Shutter speed: 1/500, Aperture: f8.0, ISO 80. I'm working on photoshopping out a lot of the distracting elements on the horizon and the power poles, but am not quite finished yet.


Inside White Aspen, I got a couple shots of Hil working Romeo (the bay) inside the arena. The arena has really bad lighting and horses tend not to like flashes, so it was difficult to get good pictures. However, there was one band of light from a window, so I used that to make these images:











Shutter: 1/250, Aperture f4.0, ISO 800. Shutter 1/320, Aperture 3.5f, ISO 800.