Sunshine

What a contrast it is to the trip in March. Back then it was cold, windy and overcast and now it’s just sunshine from a cloudless sky, hardly any wind to speak of and therefore quite warm, even if the thermometer insisted that it was just a couple of degrees above freezing. By the time I was going up the mountain, I had peeled off my jacket and gloves and I didn’t feel nearly as cold as I did one month ago when I was wearing four layers. Windchill is no joke.

108/365
108/365

Somehow it feels like the landscape is bigger when it’s covered in snow. Maybe the same thing applies to landscape as with clothes… white makes you look bigger! Joking aside, the feeling of skiing in all of this bright white is indescribable. And now that I’ve finally learned the secret of enjoyable skiing – go slow – I wasn’t feeling tired, hungry or thirsty so I could concentrate all my energy in enjoying the trip and finding the occasional photo opportunity. Because truthfully, there weren’t very many opportunities. The lack of detail in the landscape makes it difficult to work with a wideangle and at this point, I didn’t want to use a long focal length to capture any distant detail. So I tried to use whatever little I could find – a bare patch of ground, a rock formation – but nothing really worked. Until I found this pattern in the snow and then it clicked for me.

Almost no flare
Almost no flare

But let’s not forget that I have a new lens to test. I already knew, from those odd few pictures I’ve taken so far, that the lens is sharp (your mileage may vary, of course, but for my uses it’s a sharp lens and that’s all I ask), so the only thing I could think of testing today was how it handles flare. Turns out that it’s really good with that, too – the first sunburst picture shows one big blob of flare but even that can be eliminated if the sun is positioned differently in the frame.

I really like this lens, I think it’s my new favourite. With this new lens, plus the MFT system, I think I’ve eliminated the need to carry the 24-105/4 at all (it is my workhorse, by far the most used lens I’ve ever had) . On this trip, I’m carrying two cameras – the wideangle on 6D, and superzoom on the Olympus. I think I will use this combo in the summer as well, with the addition of the Sigma 50mm macro. Needless to say that I’m looking forward to the hikes!

Sunburst on mountain birch
Sunburst on mountain birch

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