Cameras, snowflakes and water

Well, we haven't written anything new on our blog for a very long time.  Partly because being in one place nothing much changes.  Skiing has not been our main focus and instead we started becoming more interested in photography.  To the point that we decided to buy ourselves a new camera (as a combined birthdays and christmas present).  We try and take at least one interesting photo a day.  One aim has been to get a good photo of a snowflake - the main problem with this is how rarely it snows.  The second problem is that when it does, being REALLY cold the snowflakes are generally 1mm across... quite hard to get a decent photo of that.  Occasionally you get lucky and one will be 2mm across, so those are the ones we have attempted to photograph.  The third problem with this is that after 10min your fingers start to go numb and develop frostbite.  So as an alternative indoor activity we tried to photograph a single water droplet.  Lots more fun and without the problems mentioned above.    To further waste money on photography as a hobby we set up a website with some photos at www.80weeks.smugmug.com 

Feel free to post photographic missions for us, and we will have fun attempting them!