Frigid Light Photography » Vermont

Local Routes

David Howland — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:27:37 +0000

Some East Coast stoke from HighAnxietyFilms.

Local Routes from Chris Nelson on Vimeo.

Motion Panoramas

David Howland — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:02:41 +0000

This is a new technique that I’ve been working on and I’m pretty excited about. I’ve always loved shots, both on TV and in still pictures, that depicted multiples images of an object in motion. I’ve been working with Photoshop recently to create my own images with this technique. I’ve only got one so far. It’s created from a series of images taken last February at Bolton Valley and overall, I’m really pleased with how it came out.

I’ve got two versions of this image so far, one cropped and one not-cropped. I’m not sure which one I like better.

I’m gonna try and work more images into the mosaic. I’m also gonna work at figuring out the terminology I should use to refer to these images…

A Powder Week at Bolton Valley – Day 1

David Howland — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:26:16 +0000

This trip turned up completely by surprise when my friend Matt called me Monday morning to say that his friend had gotten sick and that he had an extra spot open in his car. His plan was to drive up to Williston, VT and spend the night at the Holiday Inn. Overnight guests supposedly got free lift tickets to nearby Bolton Valley. The forecast was for a warm week and conditions up north had been icy, groomed hardpack the previous weekend. I’m never one to turn down free skiing, however, so Wednesday morning Matt and I left Cape Cod for Vermont.

The first night skiing session started at around 7pm in the very cold, windy, and slushy Bolton parking lot. The mountain was hurting for snow, and there were large bare, rocky sections on most of the trails. Thank God I paid close attention to these bare spots that night. The woods were dangerous. And then it started to snow. By the end of the night, as Matt and I left early to ensure we would be able to make our way down the access road, about 6″ of powder had collected on the mountain.

The next morning, after we sidled our way into line with a visiting ski team to get a free breakfast, we crawled, slid, and skidded our way up to Bolton Valley. 18 inches of fresh snow blanketed the mountain, covering all the bare rock from the previous night. It also made the skiing absolutely incredible.