Breaking Sunlight

On my way to get a morning brew from my favorite coffee shop Tahoe House, the sun was just breaking through the dark and menacing morning cloud.

You can clearly see the Heavenly Ski Resort slopes, also enlightened by the morning sun, but that spot light of sun breaking through was breath-taking to see.

I like how the photo captures the layer of light breaking up the dark skyline and the dark reflection on the water. But I especially like the spotlight of color that breaks through the morning cloud and spans across the lake.

Tahoe is such an awesome place to live!

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Ice Tooth

This hunk of frozen ice that obviously became to heavy to hang from the roof certainly looks like a tooth sculpture to me. I’m glad nobody was under this when it decide to plant itself into the ground. 

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West Shore Sunrise

West Shore Sunrise

I love the colors captured in this photo of the sunrise from the West Shore. It was an awesome sight to see the sun rise over the East Shore mountains. The red glowing reflection in the lake adds an interesting aspect to the photo.

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West Shore and Mount Tallac

West Shore & Mount Tallac

A glorious day on the West Shore with Mount Tallac clearly visible in the distance.  

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Monthly Prize Winner!

Congratulations to Lori from Milpitas who won the December 2009 prize draw. Lori selected the recent Truckee River Winter Scene photo from November, 2009. Check it out by clicking on the hot-link.

Each month in 2009, Tahoe Photos is giving away a Tahoe Photos Reprint — an order value worth $50. For your chance to win, you must be a registered email subscriber. Please spread the word as the more email subscribers, the better prize we could offer!!

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Snowy Morning

Finally, the real snow has arrived. This morning Tahoe is covered in a blanket of snow at least 2-feet deep, and it’s still snowing.

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Alpine Meadows, Opening Weekend

It was a bitterly cold morning just watching the die-hard skiers and snow boarders get their first taste of skiing for the season. The snow was being whipped-up by a turbulent and gusty wind as the photo captures.

Early afternoon Alpine Meadows closed its slopes as the first real winter storm that we have all been waiting for arrived and on-mountain visibility become virtually zero.

The Tahoe area weather forecast is snow for the next few days, perhaps the whole week, and right now there is a winter storm warning until Monday evening.

At last some real snow, let the skiing season truly begin!!

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Monthly Prize Winner!

Congratulations to Joel from Colorado who won the November 2009 prize draw. Joel selected the recent Commons Beach photo in Tahoe City from November, 2009. Check it out by clicking on the hot-link.

Each month in 2009, Tahoe Photos is giving away a Tahoe Photos Reprint — an order value worth $50. For your chance to win, you must be a registered email subscriber. Please spread the word as the more email subscribers, the better prize we could offer!!

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West (Sea)Shore

As this photo shows, today the Lake was more like an ocean! The waves were crashing against the West Shore and the wind was bitterly cold as it exercised the flag.

Even in such weather conditions, to what we would normally consider and perhaps prefer to see, the scene still shows how beautiful and contrasting Tahoe is.

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Squaw Valley, Thanksgiving Morning

Last Thanksgiving I took (roughly) the same photo of Squaw Valley so it was interesting to compare the two images. Last years photo (click here to view) shows that there was clearly less snow and the weather was very much overcast.

This year Squaw Valley is already entertaining the die-hard skies who are out there on the few slopes that are open. Let’s hope this is a good sign and that it will be an exceptionally great ski season.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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