Words and Light

This morning, I headed out the door at 6:45 for my first weather feature in Pennsylvania.

The entire northeast region of the U.S. received a blanket of snow last night, and York got about 3-4 inches. As the early-shift photographer, I was assigned to get some snow-related art around my apartment complex before the paper went to press. (The York Dispatch is an afternoon paper, remember.)

I was able to catch the guy who plowed, salted and shoveled an entire section of the complex before he left.

© 2011 by The York Dispatch. Justin Myers shovels sidewalks at the Apartments at Waterford early on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011. Myers, who owns his own landscaping and installment business, said he has been plowing, shoveling and salting roads and sidewalks at the apartments and at another nearby business since 10 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 11.

(I, uh, really need to control my camera tilt when using an off-camera flash. This is not the one I submitted for print, though.)

And photographed another guy brushing and scraping his car.

© 2011 by The York Dispatch. Ryan Wenrich, an engineer at Adhesives Research, scrapes and brushes off his car at the Apartments at Waterford on Wednesday morning, Jan. 12, 2011.

Then, before I had to go back inside to file photos, I traipsed around some more and admired the sky.

Natural vignetting. Natural sky (underexposed).

Then I went inside, thanked the powers-that-be that I have excellent snow boots and sent my photos to the paper.