Potomac River in the Winter

Today I had to run an errand in Baltimore.

The weather there and back was in and out of the rain and fog with a temperature range between home and Baltimore of about 20º. It’s just so odd that the temperature spread would be that different in such a short distance.

The ground is still very cold as is the temperature of the waters near home. When we went across the Potomac river we couldn’t see past the windows in our car. But when I came back across the river this is what I saw:

The Potomac River

It’s often not easy to get a photograph like this. I’d say that most photography that you don’t see every day has some element of crazy in it. I tried to describe it here.

I’m not posting these high resolution pictures on Instagram or Facebook because they take out all the detail. Since these shots were made by hand with very high ISO in low light they are already “grainy” which would look worse after “enhancement” by the big box social media sites.

As I stood on the river bridge like a crazy man the sky color changes like it always does as the sun sets lower in the sky. The colors changed from blue/grey to pastel. I did my best to capture that here:

If you want to see more detailed photographs you can touch the images. Following is a map showing the GPS coordinates of where I was standing to take these photos and video. I was on the west (left) side of the bridge.

I hope you have a great week ahead of you!

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