After reading comments on Facebook last week, (probably from non-skiers and non-snow boarders or those lacking enthusiasm for winter), expressing readiness for spring by writing "enough already", I said to myself I would not do any more blogs featuring snow and other winter subjects this season.  So much for that.  After the last substantial snow we received, I was compelled by the beauty of the drifting snow to do more winter photography.  When presented gifts from nature, I gratefully accept them.  Today, they are drifts.

The effects of wind are everywhere on Earth.  Wind and water work every day - shaping, molding, building up, tearing down, and otherwise leaving their marks.  Here are some that I found after the high mesa and points west, including Chama, received a healthy dump of snow.  After the storm exited east, and the sun was no longer obscured by an overcast sky, I got out for a couple of different shoots among the drifts.  There is a black and white feel to this image, despite the fact that it is shot in color mode.

Drift 1  

Wind whipped around a sandstone upright to make graceful drifts in the two photographs below.

Drift 2

Drift 3

A humble garden pot required the wind to deposit snow in an almost perfectly straight line.

Drift 4

 I have always loved "The Great Wave off Kanagawa", a woodblock by Katsushika Hokusai.  It inspired me to take this snow wave and give it a computer tint with selenium.  

Drift 5 Blue wave

until next Monday,

DB

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