Last week I finally ordered a new camera for myself so I can work on my photography. Now, don’t get me wrong, I love my Panasonic camera (and I’ve only had it for a year) but I felt it was kind of limiting to expand with.

Plus, the lack of ability to really be able to control the focus really irked me.

After much consideration (and lusting) I settled with the Nikon D90. My Mom owns a D60 so I’d be able to steal borrow her lenses and, after talking with a few photography experts and my wants/needs with my camera, I felt this was an excellent spring board into the SLR world.

Last week Mack and I decided to drive up the mountains to go see SNOW! I write this in ALL CAPS because we’d lived in Arizona and Florida and frankly you don’t see much in the way of snow in those states (for some odd reason). Generally I loath cold weather and can be found wearing about twenty sweatshirts now that we’re back in the northwest. With January here and only one day in which it snowed (and didn’t stick) I decided I need to see snow and realize what a pain in the ass (in a wonderful way, of course) that snowy white powder is.

Plus, it gave me the perfect excuse to use my D90. Motives, I do have them sometimes.

So instead of offering my inane ramblings about the snow and cold and our nice car trip I’ll let a few of the pictures do the talking instead:

(you can see the rest at the flickr set)

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