Burke 2/6/14

[from_the_NEK]

Powder day! Since this 8" snowfall probably ranks in the top 10 biggest storms of the last 3 years, I decided to get there this morning. Beautiful blue sky, boot deep powder, and no wind = win!
It was my first day out this winter due to so many other commitments and generally blah conditions that didn’t justify taking a morning from work. My quads were definitely feeling it by 11:30.
Had a fun morning even though it was ridiculously crowded with all 75 people there :wink: . 8" of fluff fell yesterday. They are still only reporting 67" for the entire winter so far. The woods look good but are still sketchy as there is 10-12" of fluff then ice and dirt :-?
Still a beautiful day in the NEKberhood (I was skiing by myself so all I got were landscape shots):

 

[skifree]

great pix! way to go get it

 

[jaysunn]

Holy shit. The pics of the wind turbines is awesome.


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[Abubob]

Is that Jay beyond the turbines? It must be waaay farther than that.

 

[BeefyBoy50]

Awesome pictures, especially the jay peak one. No actually just all of them. Nice report!

 

[bzrperfspec77]

Wow... Great pictures.

 

[from_the_NEK]

Is that Jay beyond the turbines? It must be waaay farther than that.

That is Jay in the background. I shot that with a 300mm lens with a 2x teleconverter (making it 600mm). Big Jay is on the left edge of the picture.

 

[from_the_NEK]

Here is the view toward Jay with less zoom.

 

[Abubob]

Here is the view toward Jay with less zoom.

Nice work. I was gonna say you must have an incredible zoom. 600mm would do it. Not handheld then. What do you use?

 

[from_the_NEK]

Nice work. I was gonna say you must have an incredible zoom. 600mm would do it. Not handheld then. What do you use?

It was handheld and I was cold :smile:. I'm not really sure how I held it still enough to get a decent picture. Camera is a Canon T3i.

 

[bdfreetuna]

Really cool pics. Next time I go to Burke I'm bringing my Canon SX40HS with 840mm zoom and aiming it towards Jay

 

[Euler]

Well done! Your photos are stunning! I can't believe you got that photo from a 600mm lens w/o support! The lens/camera must have some wicked image stabiliazation or else you are the bionic man

 

[from_the_NEK]

else you are the bionic man

I may have been frozen. It was pretty cold up there with no gloves on.

 

[Abubob]

Well done! Your photos are stunning! I can't believe you got that photo from a 600mm lens w/o support! The lens/camera must have some wicked image stabiliazation or else you are the bionic man

I may have been frozen. It was pretty cold up there with no gloves on.

Yeah, that might work.

 

[bdfreetuna]

ISO 32,000 will also do the trick

 

[fbrissette]

Would love to get a copy for personal use. Possible ?
(The one with the windmill)

 

[Nick]

That's awesome. I want a teleconverter now for my t2i

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[from_the_NEK]

Would love to get a copy for personal use. Possible ?
(The one with the windmill)

Sure, how do you want to get it?