We got up around our normal time and I turned on our Olympian Wave 3 Catalytic Heater to help heat up the RV. It was 37°F (3°C) outside. I had my usual breakfast then started to work up a blog entry. We turned on the generator for an hour and a half to give our batteries a boost, and I processed more images through Capture One (C1) to adjust exposure and white balance and to assign final file names. We left in the Jeep around 10:28.

We headed up towards a group of lakes north of us. Morrell Pond wasn't very photogenic, and neither were Solomon Reservoir or Farrell Pond. Meeks Lake probably would have been good a week or two ago when the aspens were closer to peak. The large beaver pond near Meeks Lake was still interesting, and both J and I photographed there. I spent the whole time with one composition (left). I started with just a 2-stop soft graduated neutral density filter, then added a polarizer to maximize the reflection of the water, then added three stops of solid neutral density to blur the ripples in the water and then added another four stops of solid neutral density to blur the ripples even further. With seven stops of solid neutral density, the movement of the small branch in the lower corner with the aspen leaves created a distracting blur. While the polarizer made the image look better in the field, I liked the un-polarized image the best when I looked at them on the computer because the darker water helped the logs stand out.

I had Clif Bars for lunch on our way back to the RV.

We returned to the RV around 1:05 and I downloaded the images I took then downselected them a bit. I made a batch of my chili around 1:55. I finished the blog entry then finished processing images through Capture One (C1) to adjust exposure and white balance and to assign final file names. Then I moved files around and backed up the data.

We had dinner around 5:55 of my chili and tortilla chips. Eight Mule Deer, both does and youngsters, came out of the woods about 50 yards (45m) away and foraged in the sagebrush while we ate.

After dinner, I processed the recently-renamed PSD files for a stock submission, then processed more images for a stock submission. I processed an image for the blog before going to bed.