Land That Spring Forgot

March 20, 2018 was the official first day of spring. Mother Nature had other ideas. A winter storm with high winds affected most of the state of Iowa on Saturday, March 24, and dumped about 7 inches of snow where the above image was captured--at Dry Run Creek at the border of Cedar Rapids and Marion. I positioned my Vanguard Alta Series 70 tripod in the shallow, slow moving water of the creek. This image is a stack of 13 images (10:47-10:50 pm CDT), all 2.5-second exposures at f/22, 100 ISO and 11mm focal length. Stacking via StarStaX2. I used my Tokina AT-X Pro DX 11-16 mm f/2.8 lens with an X2 77 mm ND filter. The camera did not capture the horizontal snow in the air at the time. At this moment it was 30 degrees F temperature, 30 degrees dew point and 97% humidity.

Black and white version of top image.

10:50 pm. Looking the opposite direction at the same spot as the top images. Single exposure with same camera settings as top images. Nikon D7200 DSLR camera.

Radar image capture for same time as photographs, showing extensive area of snow. Target icon indicates position of photo captures.