“Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.” — Peter Adams

Thank you for all the new views and likes from last week, it helps keep me inspired.

Sunday, 03/01/2026: Posted photo — Stain Glass Window.

Last week, the photo challenge was window light. The challenge ends on Sunday so I can take my photo for the challenge and post my first photo for the week. The plan was to take a photo of sunshine coming through the window. This did not happen since it was snowing.

For this photo, I took the shot straight onto the window to attempt to capture as much light as possible. I had to lighten up the wall in post processing because the light that came through the window darkened the wall. The cellphone camera was metered on the window.

Monday, 03/02/2026: Posted photo — Snowshoes.

For tonight’s hike, I just used snowshoes. I may have gotten away with just microspikes, but there reports of many “post holes” on the trail. I will explain what a “post hole” is on Wednesday. I will be getting out of bed early tomorrow to see the lunar eclipse so I will not hike tomorrow night.

I was glad that I did have my snowshoes on since there were may “post holes” that I hiked over. It also helped when I stepped off the trail to let hikers ascend, I did not sink up to my knees in the snow. One of the rules of hiking is that people ascending have the right of way over the descending hikers.

Tuesday, 03/03/2026: Posted photo — Total Lunar Eclipse.

Today’s lunar eclipse was part of a selenelion. A selenelion is a rare astronomical event because both the totally eclipsed moon and the sunrise are visible on the horizon at the same time.

A lunar eclipse is also called a blood moon since the moon turns red. We did not see that this morning since it was sunrise and the moon was washed out. I have a difficult time focusing in on the moon as it was getting closer to totality, so instead of using my “moon” lens, I had to use my 300mm lens. Light is refracted around the Earth giving the moon an orange-red color. This is the same phenomenon that happens during sunrises and sunsets.

Here are a couple of bonus photos from the eclipse. One was taken about 45 minutes from totality and one was taken at totality before the moon disappeared.

As a side note, after the clear morning sky for the eclipse, we received a few inches of fresh snow.

Wednesday, 03/04/2026: Posted photo — Post Holing.

Post holing is sinking knee- or waist-deep into soft snow with each step, leaving behind deep, post-like holes. It occurs when snow is not firm enough to support a hiker’s weight. It usually occurs in softer snow in warmer weather, or off the packed trail.

Post holing could be very dangerous. It could lead to a spruce trap of another dangerous situation, such as stepping into a river or off a concealed hole. A spruce trap, or tree well, is a dangerous, hidden void in deep snow surrounding the base of an evergreen tree. There were two ladies that were caught is a spruce trap overnight last winter on Mount Washington, and survived due to the training they received going on AMC hikes.

I was once hiking on Mount Rainier in Washington State. I hiked the trail at a different time a few years before and geotagged a waterfall I wanted to take a photo of during the winter. When I went back to take this photo, my geotag told me I was in the correct location, but I could not find the waterfall. Going back to a mapping program, I discovered that I was on top of the waterfall. If I posted holed, I could of fell off the waterfall and under the snow. That would not have been good for me.

Thursday, 03/05/2026: Posted photo — Sparkle off Trees.

This is my attempt to capture the sun reflecting off ice covered trees. We had freezing rain recently and the trees are covered in ice. There was a quick melt today, so I wanted to capture the sparkle before it all melted away.

This photo does not give you the full effect of what I saw real-time. Photographs normally do not do nature justice.

Friday, 03/06/2026: Post photo — Small Icicles.

Here is a photo of some icicles before they melted away. Sorry about the short commentary today.

Saturday, 03/07/2026: Post photo — Sundog.

I was out on a walk and saw this sundog. It is not the most brilliant one that I have seen. As with other photos that I have taken, something was calling me to take a photo of it.

A sundog is an atmospheric phenomenon appearing as bright, sometimes colored, spots of light on either side of the sun. A sundog is caused by sunlight refracting through ice crystals in cirrus clouds. A sundog will appear at approximately 22° from the sun. Based on the physics of light passing through prisms, the minimum deviation, or bending, of light occurs at roughly 22 degrees. Sundogs are most common in winter, near the horizon, even though I have seen them during the summer after storms. Sundogs are also known as mock suns, or parhelia, which means “with the sun”.

That is all for now. Until next week, be safe.

“Sumens imagines consolateur et inspirat me. Pulchritudinem mundi video per camera mean.”

“Quod scripsi, scripsi. Ingeniarius sum, non scriptor.”

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