Frosty Dawn

by Mike Lee

Title

Frosty Dawn

Artist

Mike Lee

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Photograph - Digital Photography

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I took a morning drive to Lake Almanor (Plumas County, California, USA) on a nice brisk January morning hoping to catch a pretty sunrise and it did not disappoint. The ambient air temp was 17 degrees Fahrenheit and the dew point was clearly very close to that as there was wonderful fog all around the lake and my lens hood had lots of lovely ice crystals on it by the time I finished shooting. The first thing I saw when I got out of the car on the west end of the causeway was this little stand of frosty bare trees against all that fog with wonderful clouds and tones in the sky behind. I thought it made a beautiful scene and the still photo makes it seem as if it’s some remote winter wonderland somewhere as it lacks the sound of all the early morning logging trucks passing by to wherever they were headed to salvage log the savage Dixie Fire that ravaged the region in the previous summer (but mercifully spared Chester and most of the landscape immediately around the lake, thanks to some heroic efforts by our amazing firefighters).

𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘭 𝘴𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘴, 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘮 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴. 𝘈 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘹𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮𝘴, 𝘤𝘰𝘻𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘴, 𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴. 𝘈 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘭𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘴 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘺, 𝘊𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳, 𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘧𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘈𝘭𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴.

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January 13th, 2022

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