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Spring Comes to Life

It’s that time of year again when dormancy gives way to new life. While driving yesterday the blossoms erupting into flowers on the various trees I passed caught my eye without much difficulty. I couldn’t stop then, but made a plan to go back to one of my favorite photo haunts this morning while the [...]

Needle Ice

An example of an ice formation called extruded ice, or needle ice. Perhaps you have heard it called by another name. If so, I would be glad to hear from you.

This phenomenon occurs when the air temperature drops below freezing and yet there is liquid water in the soil. As this water [...]

Moon and Jupiter Descending Into Ice

6 hours and 10 minutes of the Moon and Jupiter setting through the ice covered branches compressed into 25 seconds. 10:33 p.m. – 4:43 a.m. on Jan. 11/12, 2011

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The White Witch of Narnia

A Narnia-like winter has descended on Greenville, and I have discovered why.

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South Carolina Snowstorm – January 10, 2011

Just a few weeks after the first white Christmas I’ve ever seen here, Greenville, SC enjoyed what for us is nothing less than a Snowstorm. The sequence begins about 12:20 a.m. lasting 10 hours and 44 minutes. Through the wizardry that is Quicktime, I have distilled this down to 39 seconds. Note: the changing [...]

Christmas Snow time-lapse

Over eleven hours compressed into 45 seconds beginning about 12:20 p.m. on Christmas day 2010.

March 24, 2011 update: During the process of revising and merging my web site and blog, I discovered something in this movie. If you look very carefully in the lower-left quadrant of the image, at [...]

Christmas Snow

Image © Jim Blanchard 2010

 

Time-lapse of TBC paving

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TBC lot paving panorama – December 5, 2010

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Beginning of the day – 10:15 a.m.

 

End of the day – 5 [...]

Wave Clouds

This relatively uncommon type of cloud is caused when the air flows over hills at just the right altitude. In this case I believe the hills are Piney and Paris Mountains. The sequence covers over 80 minutes the afternoon of November 29, 2010 between 3:23 and 4:48 p.m. made up of 500 images taken [...]