It isn’t officially winter yet but we have been experiencing winter weather. For Hanford that means the Tule fog rolls in and frost covers the ground. I haven’t been up early enough to take any frost pictures. It pretty much has melted off by the time I’m out the door in the mornings. But there have been a couple of days when the fog comes in early and doesn’t burn off. Visiblity can be a hundred yards or less at times. King County seems to experience a thicker and longer lasting fog. Sentinel reporter Mike Eiman wrote a pretty good story on why this happens.

Having a job as a photographer I sometimes get to go to places I normally wouldn’t go to if I didn’t have a camera swinging around my neck. Today was was one of those times. I was working on a story about Lakeside Dairy, which is the first dairy in the Hanford area to use solar energy help power its operations. While there, I took the usual photographs of the owner beside the solar arrays.

During the course of the picture taking he mentioned that a good way to get the four acres of solar panels into the picture would be to climb one of the silage piles. I’ve climbed a lot of things in my career in order to get a better angle for a picture but a huge pile of feed for cows was a first. The mounds were covered by tarp tied down with the help of old tire sidewalls. See this repetition of circles, i knew I had an iPhone picture.

Our dog Donny has been posing for a lot of pictures the last few days. He’s becoming a real pro at mugging for the camera. The latest one of him was a portrait taken with my iPhone 4.

Pictures are opportunities are every where. Even when you are cleaning the bathroom.