{"id":4958,"date":"2019-05-13T10:55:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T19:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/?p=4958"},"modified":"2025-11-01T22:06:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T07:06:55","slug":"snowmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/?p=4958","title":{"rendered":"Snowmen"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u00a0 took these slides on the first day of spring, March 21, 2018. For those of you from balmier climes, yes, there can be this much snow in Montreal on the first day of spring.\u00a0 These snowmen had melted a little, and were starting to lose the form and details bestowed initially by their young creators. A couple of them have lost their eyes. Some of their features are starting to look a bit abstract. I initially saw them as somewhat nostalgic relics from the long winter we had been through, perhaps on a smaller time scale the way ruins remind us of a long-gone past, like the statues on Easter Island. My wife found them scary, as though they had escaped from a horror movie, and the more I examined them, the more I could see her point of view. Shot with a Heidoscop on a tripod with Fuji Provia 100F film. Exposures were as follows:<\/p>\n

Snowman with a cap and scarf –\u00a0\u00a01\/50th @ f25.<\/p>\n

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Snowman with small head – 1\/20th @ f25.<\/p>\n

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Snowman with scarf and toque – 1\/25th @ f25.<\/p>\n

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Snowman whose grapefruit eyes fell off – 1\/40th @ f25.<\/p>\n

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I\u00a0 took these slides on the first day of spring, March 21, 2018. For those of you from balmier climes, yes, there can be this much snow in Montreal on the first day of spring.\u00a0 These snowmen had melted a little, and were starting to lose the form and details bestowed initially by their young […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[608,76],"tags":[213,50,9],"class_list":["post-4958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a31","category-folioa","tag-fuji-provia-100f","tag-heidoscop","tag-paul-shay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4958"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4965,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958\/revisions\/4965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}