Wednesday, January 1, 2020

December 2019

Frost and snow adorn a red barn in rural Grant County, SD
December is always a busy month and 2019's version followed suit. End of the year projects and tasks at work, trips home for the holidays mixed with the early winter fog, frost and snow not only made the month fly by, but provided some fine opportunities to find photos out in the great wide open. I was given a small lens ball by a "Secret Santa" at work and you'll find a couple photos in this post where that was used. It is amazing what solid ball of glass can do for pushing creativity as well as exploring new ways to see the world.  Click on a photo for a larger file to view and thanks for stopping by!

Single leaf frozen on the edge of Lake Alvin, near Harrisburg, SD

Composite image of the single leaf to create "leaves of many colors"

Zero degree sunset over Zoar church in rural Day County, SD

Lens ball at Covell Lake in Sioux Falls, SD

Winter sunset with the lens ball and old wooden fencepost just west of Sioux Falls, SD

Christmas Eve frost with a white-tail buck east of Houghton, SD

Bison at first light in Wind Cave National Park

Frosted Bison bull

Jackson County sunset (Stamford area) 

Chickadee at the Outdoor Campus in Sioux Falls after a late month winter storm

The last sunset of 2019 as seen on the Moody and Lake County Line in the Rutland, SD area.