Brrrr....

16/365
5:12pm

When we left for Chicago on Friday, we grudgingly had to deal with temps hanging out somewhere around -3. We hit tundra-like patches along the way that pushed our car thermometer to read numbers in double digits below zero. I don't think I've taken a picture out of moving vehicle for a couple decades, but it was worth pulling out and giving it a whirl. The factory smoke is not particularly sharp and clear here , but that's not a characteristic I usually associate with, well, smoke. I put the Elph lens right up against the glass to avoid any glare, turned the flash off, focused on the stacks, and panned the scene. Still, I needed to crop the blurred fence posts and add some color saturation. The fences posts actually would have worked if they were a little more identifiable, but they looked messy and it took too much attention away from the rest of the shot.

Now, this is what's remarkable: Full on sunset at 5:12pm on the coldest day in a decade. Minute by minute, our days really are getting longer--even if we need a time stamp to prove it to us.