Spring 2000

Spring Snow
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Snow Willows #2ƒâ€˜ Ontario, 2000
One week-day morning in mid-April I woke up to find that a couple of inches of snow had fallen on Toronto overnight. Spring foliage wasn't very well advanced yet, but the willow trees in a nearby ravine looked as if they'd been sugar coated. I knew that the snow would only last a couple of hours before melting away. A drive into the country was out of the question because of mid-week traffic so I grabbed my camera gear and headed to a bridge overlooking a nearby wooded ravine.
A couple of days earlier I had just received my newCanon EOS-1Vcamera and I was eager to put more than a test roll though it. This unexpected opportunity didn't disappoint.
Photographed with a Canon EOS-1V and 100~400mm f/5.6L lens on Fuji MS @ 100
Snow Willows #1ƒâ€...