Tony Pratt

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Feb
18

Waning Days of Winter

Filed Under Scenics, Winter 2010

I took this photograph of these kids playing on the beach as the sun set on a hot August day last summer. That was exactly 6 months ago. At that time the days were getting noticeably shorter, the waning days of summer. Let’s be optimists as the winter wanes and dream of 6 months from now when this scene will be repeated again.

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Feb
9

Snow Cones

Filed Under Scenics, Winter 2010

Late yesterday I found this snow covered field with interesting patterns around plant stalks that formed snow cones.

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Feb
8

Cedar Icicles

Filed Under Scenics, Winter 2010

The report from here in Lewes, DE was that the blizzard dropped 20.6 inches of snow. Rain mixed in with the snow for several hours, then it turned colder and the snow mounted up. Looking in the woods today I found icicles hanging from cedar trees. The late day sun shining through them made a unique and beautiful woods scene.

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Feb
5

The Blizzard Begins

Filed Under Scenics, Winter 2010

The coast of Delware is under a blizzard warning for tonight and tomorrow. The storm has started. This is the very beginning on Friday night at 7:40 p.m. (about 10 minutes ago).

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Jan
31

Snow Dunes

Filed Under Scenics, Winter 2010

A view of the dunes in Cape Henlopen State Park during yesterday’s snowstorm.

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Jan
19

Snowgeese + Sunset Afterglow = A Nice Moment

Filed Under Scenics, Snow Geese, Sunrises and Sunsets, Winter 2010

Last night I photographed the pintails that I posted last night and on the way out of the marsh I saw a thousand or more snowgeese in a field just after the sun had set. Here is one from that moment.

Pintails aand Snowgeese 1.18.2010_011810_9926

Jan
8

Snowy Cypress

Filed Under Scenics, Winter 2010

These Bald Cypress trees had to brace against a light snow this morning.

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Jan
3

Brrrrrrr!!

Filed Under Scenics, Sunrises and Sunsets, Winter 2010

The howling northwest winds gusted to 50 miles per hour and the temperature peaked at 26 degrees here in Lewes, Delaware today. I waded through 18 inches of frozen sea slush to get a photograph of sunset at Cape Henlopen tonight. It was brutally cold but this scene is rare here.

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Dec
31

Happy New Year

Filed Under Scenics, Winter 2010

The sunset last night turned out to be the last sunny sunset of the decade here at the Delaware coast. The blue moon tonight is covered by clouds. Happy New Year to everyone and thanks to all of the people who have visited my website this past year. I look forward to taking and posting exciting new photographs in the coming year.

Sunset Cape H 12.30.2009_123009_9115.1

Dec
20

A Beach Day?

Filed Under Fall 2009, Scenics

Early this morning the clouds from yesterday’s snow storm were pushing out to sea. As the sun broke through at dawn on the last day of Fall, this walkway to the beach was not quite as inviting as it is on a hot July morning.

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