
Tracks in the snow

This week Cheyenne has been hit by an epic freeze. And by epic I mean -13 degrees Fahrenheit. Today’s wind chill was -40 degrees Fahrenheit. It was so cold that for the second consecutive day, I couldn’t get my truck to start in the morning. It was a slow day at the office aside from my normal legislative photographic duties in the morning, but in the afternoon I got sent out to find people being cold. I didn’t find any home run features, but I started shooting into the sun around 5:30 p.m. to try to show the trails of visible exhaust fumes in the cold.
Today the feature hunting began. I spent a few hours at the beginning of my shift driving around some of the local parks looking for some “wild art” – a feature photo that doesn’t go with a story. I spotted a few fishermen on a frozen lake, and took several frames of them although the shots didn’t really pan out like I had expected. As I was getting ready to leave, I spotted a guy grabbing a sled out of the back of his car and asked him if he minded if I tagged along and snapped a few photos. He ended up pulling his son around for a while on the sled as I snapped away.
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