Just saw the news. They got 1m of snow in Hudiksvall today. Hudiksvall is on the coast, just over 100km east from Los. When I lived in Ljusdal, it was my closest ”big” town (they have Åhlens). But really… 1 metre of snow?! What did we get here… all of 1cm? Well ok a bit more, but like I said, extreme this ain’t. Regardless of how our snowfall compares to other parts of Sweden, it sure is beautiful here. Definitely the best snow we’ve had this winter (considering that the snow has almost melted away 2-3 times already) and it’s starting to look like winter has started for real. Since it’s been very windy, I thought that the chances are good for finding some nice snow drifts and drove to the Lossjön lake. No drifts. So I drove a bit more, to the Dåasen lake. No drifts. So I wanted to check a couple of bogs further out east… no drifts. I was seriously frustrated by all the driving for nothing so I decided that one old trick has got to be better than a bag of new and drove to my favourite neighbourhood bog. Hooray! If I may still complain though, I would’ve needed a bit more open space. Finding an angle without cluttering the image with trees and twigs was a challenge. Hopefully we’ll have some beautiful snow next weekend as well so I can go searching for a bigger bog. This week is my on call duty week which means that my options are very limited.

In the afternoon I went out again and wisely left the car behind. I did my favourite hike to the Eagle Mountain and although I didn’t get many photos to show for it, I did enjoy the walk. There were some old snow mobile tracks I could follow so the snow wasn’t too deep, but I did get to wade angle deep most of the time. So I got a workout instead of photos.

Regarding the L-bracket, I didn’t get to try it. As soon as I started working on my first photo op for the day, I had to change from the 17-85mm to 70-200mm. Both my telephotos have dedicated lens plates attached to the tripod collar, so the L-bracket will really only be used with the wideangle zoom and 100mm macro (which is not seeing much action in the wintertime).