If ever given the chance to go or not to go, for the sake of making art, you should always go.
—Chase Jarvis (on photography)

Starting Monday, we started watching the forecast for Iowa, and it seemed to be a bad idea. But Friday was supposed to be nice. Unfortunatly, a storm was moving through on Wednesday, and would be hitting us on Thursday. But we left Thursday morning, in the snow. I had already cleared by driveway of 2″, and another 3-5″ were expected. I gave my wife a low-down on the snowblower earlier that morning. We drove from Madison to Dubuque and stopped for lunch. It was still snowing, even though we had expected it to clear up but Iowa. Once in Iowa, in the open plains, we experienced white-out driving and drifts over the interstate. It was amazing.

We made it early evening, and stopped at the wind farm for some sunset-like photos (except it was super cloudy by the time we got there). I think some of the photos will still be kind of neat and the company will want them.

Friday morning we ate breakfast and had “coffee” at the hotel and drove out to the wind farm. We arrived around civil twilight and i set up. it. was. fantastic. i almost forgot to shoot, it was so beautiful. But the temps were -30F in the wind, and it is windy in Iowa.

Anyway, above is a picture of me in a snow swept field in full cold weather/hazard gear shooting in -10 (-30f wind chill) at sunrise. In this shot, i had my canon 40d with 70-200 f2. IS. On the tripod i had my 7d set for 10-sec delay with Tokina 12-24 f4.