For one day in the Pacific Northwest, everything frozen.
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Looking at my Tacoma was a detailed spectacle.
From the truck, I grabbed a sheet of black foam core and wandered around the garden.
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Placing the black background behind the frozen elements helped isolate the subjects and make the ice pop.
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Then with an old camera, and an even older lens, I returned to the truck to photograph the macro world of ice encapsulating the Toyota Tacoma.
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They each look like a study of ice, or a picture of a frozen planet far out in the galaxy.
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