How cold was it outside on Sunday? Well, after about forty-five minutes of shooting around the main campus of Temple at around 2.30p, I went to open my camera bag and one of the plastic buckles just snapped off as I pressed it. It wasn't just a defective buckle. It was the cold. How do I know? Because about fifteen minutes later, when I went to open the bag again, another buckle snapped due to being so frozen.
It was so windy, a little piece of schmutz blew into my camera and landed on the CCD sensor and it showed up in a few of the shots as a little black splotch against the gorgeous blue sky. I just cleaned the sensor last week so I know that it was clean. I cleaned it again tonight after the outing.
I spent an hour walking around in the 35mph winds which resulted in a below-freezing, plastic freezing wind chill. I wasn't worried about my camera though, it's been documented to work fine well below 0°.
It was the most time I had ever spent up there taking photos. There's a good amount of stuff to explore and take photos of, but it was so fucking cold I called it a day after an hour. I barely walked around maybe four blocks in any direction from the Student Center. I was east of Broad St for the full hour. I'll head back up there to explore some more once it gets a little warmer and less windy.
Above is a shot of that weird bell tower that is in a little quad just north of the main library. Exactly as-is out of the camera. No post processing for color adjustment or contrast or sharpening, just resizing. Came out perfectly. f/8, 1/500 sec, @12mm with the 12-24mm wide angle.
I took about sixty shots or so. A flickr set of twenty-two here.