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Showing posts with label street. Show all posts
Showing posts with label street. Show all posts

Friday, January 20, 2012

The first ice

I might have had some difficulty coming up with a title :-)  This pressure ridge of ice is almost inevitable.  When it snows, the snow plow pushes it from the middle of the street off to the side.  I can't get my car off of the street, so they have no choice but to plow it in a heap next to my car.  If I am diligent, I dash out and shovel it all by hand to the curb side of the car.  If I am not so diligent, it freezes and becomes very difficult to remove, leaving this ridge of ice.  You can see how the sun managed to melt some of it by the now-frozen puddles in the street.  This will stay here until we get a really big storm; when that happens, the city requires the cars to come off the street so they can use a big front end loader to remove the snow.  That machine will hardly notice this little bit of ice, and it'll be gone with the snow.

F Number10.0
Lens ID-45mm F3.5-5.6
Focal Length16.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 32.0 mm)
Exposure Time1/60
Exposure ProgramManual
ISO100
Exposure Compensation0
FlashOff, Did not fire

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

My car behind the snow bank

My car is on the left side of the street.  Yes, the snow bank is taller than the car.  It's also longer and deeper, too.  It gets harder and harder to find a place to put it.  What was easily a two-way street with cars parked on both sides has become a mostly one-way street.  Some people think the city should be doing more, but honestly, there's only so much heavy equipment to go round, and we aren't exactly a highly trafficked street.

It really looks this gritty.


F Number8.0
Lens IDLUMIX G VARIO 14-45mm F3.5-5.6
Focal Length45.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 90.0 mm)
Exposure Time1/100
Exposure ProgramManual
Exposure Compensation0
FlashOff, Did not fire

Friday, October 22, 2010

Street, reflected

The lighting was just right to capture the street in my son's car window. I really like playing with reflections but I'm not very good at it yet.
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