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   The Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD) highlights the diverse processes   
   and phenomena which shape our planet and our lives. EPOD will collect and   
   archive photos, imagery, graphics, and artwork with short explanatory   
   captions and links exemplifying features within the Earth system. The   
   community is invited to contribute digital imagery, short captions and   
   relevant links.   
      
      
    Winter’s Black and White — and Gray — World   
      
      January 27, 2023   
      
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      Photographer:  Ray Boren   
      
      Summary Author:  Ray Boren   
      
      Storminess and repetitive snow-shoveling kept me home most of the time,   
      but during a few breaks in the weather I felt compelled to see what all   
      that snow was doing. I was surprised by how desaturated the urban world   
      around me seemed, as demonstrated in the two photographs here. And to   
      be clear: These are COLOR photographs. The first, taken on New Year’s   
      Day, January 1, 2023, is of a tree-lined promenade that encircles the   
      Utah State Capitol in  Salt Lake City. Strips of fresh snow, instead   
      of springtime cherry blossoms, line the trees, and a man can be seen   
      walking away, disappearing around a curve in wispy fog. A second image,   
      taken on the third day of the weather event, January 3, 2023, features   
      a calm, reflective pond fed by  Little Cottonwood Creek, in Salt   
      Lake City, in the middle of the Salt Lake Valley.   
      
      Seeing the world “ in black and white” has come to imply a narrow   
      perspective. But the lack of color, as we perceive it with limited   
      human eyes, can represent both reality and an aesthetic choice.   
       Ansel Adams, the famed exponent of black and white photography,   
      noted this, and used the gradations between black and white to express   
      his appreciation for the grays in his images — and in life. “Our lives   
      at times seem a study in contrast,” he said, “love and hate, birth and   
      death, right and wrong … everything seen in absolutes of black and   
      white. Too often we are not aware that it is the shades of gray that   
      add depth and meaning to the starkness of those extremes.”   
      
      Plentiful rain turned to water-heavy snow as the new year, 2023,   
      debuted where I live, on the  Rocky Mountains’ western margin. Snow   
      piled up over several bleak mid-winter days, as low blankets of cloud   
      smothered the landscape.  The U.S. National Weather Service reported   
      that an  atmospheric river — sometimes called a “Pineapple Express”   
      — was flowing from the tropics across the Pacific Ocean, aiming its   
      potent moisture first at coastal California, which experienced   
      flooding. The flow surged inland across the Sierra Nevada Range and   
      North America’s  Great Basin before slamming into Utah’s  Wasatch   
      Mountains (and ski resorts). It’s a heck of a way to run a  historic   
      drought, which has been afflicting the West for two decades, according   
      to the  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.   
      
      
      Salt Lake City, Utah Coordinates: 40.7608, -111.8910   
      
      
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