Every year the Madison Winter Festival brings in truckloads of snow to turn the streets around the Capitol Square into a cross country ski race course; there's also snowboarding competitions, snowshoeing, and other activities. Here's a few photos I took today - if I can make it back tomorrow I'll update later. 1. {} 20120218-5 by Fin Azvandi, on Flickr 2. {} 20120218-15 by Fin Azvandi, on Flickr 3. {} 20120218-81 by Fin Azvandi, on Flickr 4. (it's a clown on skis) {} 20120218-91 by Fin Azvandi, on Flickr 5. {} 20120218-18 by Fin Azvandi, on Flickr 6. {} 20120218-40 by Fin Azvandi, on Flickr 7. {} 20120218-65 by Fin Azvandi, on Flickr 8. {} 20120218-66 by Fin Azvandi, on Flickr 9. {} 20120218-73 by Fin Azvandi, on Flickr 10. {} 20120218-112 by Fin Azvandi, on Flickr #10 was taken with Lumix 20/1.7, the rest were SMC Takumar 50/1.4
And to top it off, we didn't even have a "real" winter this year, and it was about 40 degrees today! (we washed the salt off our cars) I'm just up the road a ways in Sauk County. The ice sculpture is awesome. Do you have more of those?
nice variety of pictures here fin. I wouldn't mind a touch of that weather here myself. first and second ones tell a good story.
I'm too busy to make it down to the square this weekend, nice bunch of shoots. I thought you weren't getting much of a summer in Aus. ( that's what my parents told me anyway) GH2, 14-42, 20, zuiko 50 f1.8
Thanks for the comments all. It was warmer today and I guess the ice sculptor was only working yesterday, so the pieces he left had melted somewhat. BTW, ice in shadows is hard to photograph - I think I got lucky yesterday with some nice backlighting. Most of the action today was the ski racing. All with the SMC Takumar 50/1.4 11. {} 20120219-27 by Fin Azvandi, on Flickr 12. {} 20120219-98 by Fin Azvandi, on Flickr 13. {} 20120219-101 by Fin Azvandi, on Flickr 14. These kids enjoyed the broken pieces from a sculpture more than the art itself! {} 20120219-30 by Fin Azvandi, on Flickr 15. {} 20120219-57 by Fin Azvandi, on Flickr 16. {} 20120219-68 by Fin Azvandi, on Flickr 17. {} 20120219-65 by Fin Azvandi, on Flickr 18. {} 20120219-71 by Fin Azvandi, on Flickr 19. {} 20120219-85 by Fin Azvandi, on Flickr
