The lake is quiet, no motorboats and only an occasional snowmobile. Mallards congregate in the Sugar River near the exit of Lake Sunapee. Burkehaven Boatyard is covered with snow. Winter is a very nice time to be in Sunapee. Don’t miss the page of panoramas HERE.
Here is a photo-illustration of mallards landing in the Sugar River. There were a lot of them, but not as many as it appears in this image. I took a number of shots as they landed, lined up the images in Photoshop (CS5 does a great job of doing this automatically) and then used layer masks to hide and reveal various ducks on various layers.
Heading out on the lake from Burkehaven Harbor I found a door to nowhere. Perhaps to a fishing shack that got moved but doorless? And down at Newbury Harbor the welcome sign glowed golden in the morning light.
I arrived in the post office parking lot in Newbury Harbor for a snowshoe hike over SRK Greenway Trail 14. Since the light was great and I had a few minutes before the group carpooled to the starting point near Chalk Pond, I wandered over to where we would end our hike and made the photo below. Hard to imaging this is just behind a small shopping area.
The image below is a quick 13-shot panorama I made hand-held before the hike. I only had a few minutes before I was due to meet the group just down the road. Even though I shot with a fairly wide-angle lens, CS5 was able to stitch it together quite well. If you click this image you will be taken to a page of panoramas from January 2011 in the Sunapee area. You can zoom into these pans and explore them in detail.
Here is a brief slide show of photos from January 2011 in Sunapee.
