It was a beautiful day yesterday. Mostly blue sky with a few puffy white clouds, a lot of wind and about 50 degrees. I figured I could go out along South Fork and see some animals moving and get some pictures. As I was driving I could see some clouds with some streaks angling towards the ground. The light on the falling rain from that distance looked pretty interesting. It was also not the direction I was heading. But, up ahead of me I could also see dark clouds, some deer I spotted were all laying down in taller grass behind trees and I started thinking some of the animals were taking shelter for the incoming storm. I drove a little farther and saw the sun being covered by clouds and the valley with fun highlights from cloud cover. I pulled over and got my camera out and started to see a couple little snowflakes being driven on the wind. I quickly set up the camera and still didn’t quiet get what I originally spotted. The edge of the storm slammed into me and I had to stand between the camera and the wind to take pictures. Within a couple minutes my fingers and face were numb from wind and snow, but I captured a couple pictures. One of them I had to tweak a bit with Photoshop but it does bring out a lot of feeling to the image. I try not to do very much in Lightroom or Photoshop, I like my pictures to be what I saw while I was there.
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