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An image to contrast with some of the images we've seen in recent news stories...

This is the scene that greeted me at sunrise as I opened the front door to get the morning paper—note the golden light kissing the snow in the foreground before giving way to the blue daylight.

Posted solely for use on my blog (www.cycroft.net).

UPDATE Jan. 29: correction (thanks to birdguy200) made to ID: this is a Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperii) not a Red-tailed Hawk as previously thought.

Hawk's having lunch on my backyard fence earlier this month. Denisé caught this shot through the window with a Nikon D50 (I had a 50mm lens on my D800 and couldn't get a decent shot).

Denisé (wife) took this image of Tiger, our Jack Russell, and I processed it with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Tiger's a smart, very active, little dog, and Denisé has done a great job capturing his "essence".