My honey knows how much I love snow so he told me to get ready this morning, that we were heading to find some. :) Truthfully though he loves it just as much as I do. :)We got ready, packed ourselves some food to eat (we love to picnic which works out for us since we're so poor) and headed to the Ocoee River in Tennessee hoping there would be some snow up that way. It was snowing like crazy there, but hardly any snow was on the ground.
We headed on up to Andrews, N.C., and there was anywhere from one to three inches on the ground and it was BEAUTIFUL! We had a great time. We really did--and we needed it, too. Marshall threw about 50 snowballs at me during our various stops, which would've sucked for him had he had better aim. He only hit me about three times. I kept giving him the "I have a CAMERA in my hands, for crying out loud!" speech, but it didn't phase him. Lucky for me--and him--he throws like a girl. Hee hee ha ha ho ho!
(Let me just say that I'm watching the Denver Broncos right now, who's football team I love simply because I love Colorado, and this guy (for the Broncos) intercepted the football in the other team's endzone, broke for what WOULD have been a 102 yard touchdown or thereabouts, and was AT his endzone for the touchdown, stopped running at full speed to showboat and got SLAMMED by New England's tightend! Oh man, what an idiot! Boy, I bet he was humiliated--probably no more than I'll be when someone who really knows football corrects all this for me).
Anyway, back to North Carolina: we had a great time and didn't do a single thing but ride around and look at snow. I learned three things today and I'll share them with you so that you may be enlightened, too. Unfortunately for you, you'll have to file this under your "Needless Things To Know That Will Never Benefit Me In Any Way" files:
1) Sequoyah Nuclear Plant has an evacuation route. I did NOT know that but it makes tons of sense.
2) Mel Tillis wrote "Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town." That's one of my favorite Kenny Rogers songs EVER--but "Lucille" is my all-time favorite. And SHUT UP, my mother loved Kenny Rogers so I pretty much know all his song lyrics by heart.
3) It's hard to take photos of snow! *sigh* Most of my photos today bite the big one. But that's ok I guess. You live and you learn and it still doesn't take away the great fun I had today. I'll know next time to compensate a little more for the beautiful bright white.
(Ok, now the announces for the Broncos football game are saying that guy never slowed down, but he totally let up, I don't care what they say. So there!)
Good night!
3 comments:
heheh... I hear about a full stop "underexposed" is about what you need to use for shooting snow :)
How fun to just up and drive to N.C. to see some snow!
You know what frustrated me most about it all? I have a digital camera for pete's sake! I could've paid more attention to the screen to see how the photos looked but I didn't. :( Next time we go I'll be sure to pay more attention. Thanks for that tip. It makes perfect sense.
I'm trying to talk hubby into moving to N.C. when Cain graduates. We both love it there. He wants to move all the way across country but I prefer to still be close enough to home (Georgia) in case family needed us. :)
Digital cameras are automatically set to expose every photo at 18% gray. Normally in a photo with great color your exposure would be currect but when shooting extreme amounts of white you images will either expose with added gray tone or will over expose to compensate for it, therefore losing your details. You should try metering your camera off a gray card when shooting something as white as snow or use your camera's custom meter settings.
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