Some Shots from My Solstice Video

Some of the shots I used in my Winter Solstice video come from my pre-digital camera days, and they still seem to hold up, althought they tend to be grainier than I remember (some of them were shot at night with ISO 800 film, hence the grain).

This is probably one of my favorite seasonal shots that I've ever taken. This is First Presbyterian on Broadway, just around the corner from my house, taken on a snowy evening in November of 2002. I had my tripod set up and I was taking available light shots with no flash. This one came about because I forgot that you needed to shut the flash off for each shot on that camera. When I got the roll developed I saw that the flash had caught the snowflakes, and once again got taught that "mistakes" are sometimes our greatest triumphs.

The next two shots are from my usual hike in Ballard Park and around the Gooseneck Cove watershed, taken in December of '04. The first shot is the main north trail in Ballard Park, which those of you who read my stuff here on Gather will recognize from the many shots  I've taken of this exact spot in many other conditions. The second shot is  the intersection of Brenton and Hammersmith Rds. on the ridge on the west side of Gooseneck Cove. It's just so wintry that I had to take the shot.

The next is a shot taken in January of 2003 in Equality Park, a little park practically right out my front door. It snowed on one of my days off so I wandered around taking shots while the snow was still falling.

This next one is from a storm in February of 2003, taken on the Cliff Walk. That drift there was over 4 feet deep!

This last shot wasn't in the slide show, but I've posted it already with my photos and it's one of my favorite Winter shots called "Waiting for Sully". This is the bench in Eisenhower Park in downtown Newport where a retired cabby named Sully (aka Robert Sullivan) held court in the summer months. He and a bunch of other retired gents living in Henderson House around the corner on Clarke St. gathered here in good weather. This shot was taken in the aftermath of that same February '03 storm.

And that's the result of me raking through my old photos of Winter. Hope you enjoy it!