Well, that was disagreeable.

This is a minor followup to:

Doh! Got to the Airport a Day Early to Find my Flight Delayed Four Days Finally Got My Return Flight Rescheduled Continuing Saga of My Return to Japan: Flight Canceled Again

Despite all the weather problems airlines have been a victim of late, it's pretty obvious that my two canceled flights were not canceled because they were directly affected by weather. Heck, the first flight saw the whole route canceled for four days, as if one could magically know the weather four days hence. No, I think it was a [...]
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Here are some more frost patterns from arctic Ohio, following up from the one I posted the other day. It was -10°F (-23°C) with strong biting wind when I took these, by hand, outside in the wind, up hill both ways. According to the image data, I lasted two minutes 10 seconds before I couldn't stand the pain in my fingers any more and gave up: considering that I had heavy insulated gloves, it's a testament to either just how very cold it was, or how very wimpy I am. Probably both.

I tried a variety of processing on these [...]

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For those hanging on the edge of their seat as to my travel schedule, here's a short followup to "Got to the Airport a Day Early to Find my Flight Delayed Four Days" and "Finally Got My Return Flight Rescheduled"....

TL;DR version: Canceled again.

I was supposed to leave Akron Ohio this evening, but United Airlines canceled my flight (again), and not due to weather (again). Both times now it's been canceled well in advance of the actual flight. My educated guess is that they decide they need the plane more importantly elsewhere.

Anyway, the current schedule now is to [...]
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Sort of a followup to "Catching Air on a Snow Sled", this is another post of pictures from a year ago.

Playing on the lake behind my folks' place in Ohio, Anthony used an old spade as a hockey stick, and a chunk of ice as the puck....

I liked the shadow and asked Anthony to hold the pose for a few shots...

This last one has had the saturation turned up to exaggerate the blue from the sky showing in his shadow. (The blue is not seen except in the shadows because the direct sun overpowers it elsewhere.)

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Despite having heavy insulated waterproof gloves, I could handle the camera for only three minutes outside in the -10°F (-23°C) deep freeze that Ohio and much of the US had yesterday. It was just too painful for my fingers. The heavy, gusty, biting wind certainly didn't help.

(Today was different; 20°F (-7°C) never felt so warm.)

Continued here...

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