Every morning when I get out of the house on my way to work I am witness to some kind of magical sunrise. Problem is I am always in a hurry to get to work in time so I hardly have time to run back in to the house, set up my heavy artillery (1Ds Mark III) so usually I just shrug it off and go on my way.

When I got the Canon PowerShot G10, this all changed. Grabbing a shot is now as easy as taking the camera out of my jacket pocket and taking the shot. So here is one (less dramatic) example of what I used to miss out on.

On my way to work in the morning, I used to drive past this boring house and boring green tree that really did not grab my attention. This was summer. So along came fall and the house is still boring and the tree even more boring. Until winter arrived. It seemed like all the other trees got the cue to shed their leaves, however this tree lagged behind them. Coupled with the brilliant white of the house behind it, a boring scene changed into something truly amazing. So I had to stop my car, get out and grab this shot.

I took a drive through Assiniboine park, and grabbed some quick snaps of the recent snow fall.

It seems like this tree was not prepared for winter this year. It created a spectacular contrast next to the entrance of the building where I do my daily laboring.

Finally! I have been waiting for the first snow to fall since I got here. I mean - in South Africa we do not really know snow. Especially not where I lived. There seems to be something magical (for me) about the first snow. And this year we got it in spades. It seems like the weather held back - even at Halloween we had no snow. But yesterday all that changed. Yesterday it started with sleet... At 18:00 this is how my back yard looked like:

This was the result of a full day of ice rain/wet snow. Not too impressive... So I went to bed and this morning, i.e. 14 hours later, this is how that same scene looked like: