Snow much Fun!

[LeanneC]

I was going to look for our old snow throwdown but then decided it is probably time for a new one. In the northern hemisphere it is getting cold and wintry. Let’s see your snow images: landscapes, people playing in it, close-ups, whatever you have!

 

[LeanneC]

I will kick us off with a snowflake macro (it finally snowed! I was so excited) that I shot last week:

[Preston]

I know I’ve said it before, but your macros are phenomenal Leanne!  This looks like it should be on a Christmas Card.

[JasenkaG]

This looks super beautiful in b&w and I agree with Preston, it would make a great Christmas card!

[Dave Watkins]

I’ve always found snow flake macros so interesting. Their delicate geometric shapes amaze me. Beautiful tonal range in this b&w. But the background material has me stumped.

[LeanneC]

Thanks Dave. Do you mean the pesky snowflake piece behind the one I was shooting? Or the material I am shooting it on?

One thing that is quite tricky with snowflakes is how some will fuse together with others and even pieces of others. In this case, the piece helped hold the snowflake upright, but it also created a messy background. Always pros and cons.

[Dave Watkins]

The material you’re shooting it on. Looking at your photo on Flickr it looks like the snow flake is resting on some kind of hair? Fabric? Brillo pad? 🙂

[LeanneC]

It is a scarf. Here is an image taken from a little farther away, using the same one.

 

[Dave Watkins]

Catching up after the nesting issue.  Thanks Leanne. Mystery solved. 🙂

[JasenkaG]

I realized I don’t have almost any photos in the snow except for a few portraits of my boyfriend and me.

[LeanneC]

Nice image Jasenka. It must be cold as your boyfriend has snow in his hair that isn’t melting! Brrrr!

[Preston]

Great picture Jasenka.  Your boyfriend looks like he can talk to the viewer.

[Dave Watkins]

A terrific shot of the two of you. I get an over all sense of the cold but balanced slightly with the warmer glow of sunlight here and there.

[Kent DuFault]

Lovely picture.

[Kent DuFault]

I love your snowflake pictures. I’m in total awe in your crafting of these macro photographs.

[LeanneC]

Thanks so much Kent. If you saw it in action you would see that is more like getting lucky every once in awhile and less like “crafting”! LOL

Your comment showed up under a different image. Are there still issues with “nesting” of comments on the site?

[Kent DuFault]

We haven’t had much snow yet this year. Here is one from last year.

[LeanneC]

Looks like a “stay inside” kinda day, Kent!

[Kent DuFault]

Here is a favorite from a couple of years ago. This photograph depicts a grain terminal near our home, and this was the opening hours of a 24-hour blizzard.

[LeanneC]

Oh, I like this one. The colours make it feel extra cold (should be in this week’s challenge!).

[Preston]

I like all the spotting on the window.  It feels more real than just a picture.

[Kent DuFault]

Thanks, Preston. This one received a small award in some competition- I forget which one. It’s always been a favorite of mine. It really captures what that day was like.

[Kent DuFault]

This image is another favorite photo from several years ago. We were walking into a Target store during the first snowfall of the year.

[LeanneC]

Good contrast of the snow on the red bricks. It pops. And the green peeking out too!

[Dave Watkins]

This is a really nice photograph. Another example of the power of the rule of odds. And again I agree with Leanne. Just that little amount of green from the grass poking up out of the snow adds so much more than one would think.

[John Thompson]

Here is one from my beloved Red Rock

[LeanneC]

That is a heavy, wet looking snow, John! Did it last long?

[John Thompson]

It lasted until the next evening.  by then it was gone but you do not see Red Rock covered in snow like we did last year.  It was fun for me.

[Patrick]

Love this with lots of layers dark to light and the Red clay brickwork makes a fantastic background.

Nice work Kent.

 

[Kent DuFault]

Thanks, Pat!

[Preston]

The Old Homestead

We got our first snow on Monday.  I’m pleased with how the snow stuck to all the trees.

[Kent DuFault]

Oh wow, Preston! Very nice! This should be on your wall.

[Preston]

Thanks Kent.  I’ve been kicking around the idea of hanging it.  Possibly entering into our local arts contest in the spring.

[LeanneC]

Very nice, Preston! There is a great sense of dimensions and depth in your image – partly from the softness of the surrounding snow covered bushes/trees and the colours.

[Preston]

Thanks Leanne!  Winter’s becoming my favorite season to photograph, so long as there’s always fresh snow.

[Robert Apple]

I really like this as well Preston

[Preston]

Thanks Robert!

[Robert Apple]

One from a couple months ago. It started snowing in late september around here and hasn’t stopped.

[LeanneC]

Very nice, Robert. I can’t tell if you are happy about the snow? It is still a novelty here but come February we will be wishing it gone!

[Patrick]

Love this scene Preston , nicely done mate.

[Preston]

Thanks Patrick!

[Dahlia Ambrose]

Loving all the details in the snowflake Leanne. Beautiful 🙂

[LeanneC]

Thanks Dahlia!

[Tom M]

Living in middle Tennessee, we’ve only seen flurries so far this year. So- here is an image from upstate NY from a few years ago…

[Tom M]

I kinda liked how the light hit these trees in another from upstate NY…

 

[LeanneC]

Beautiful images Tom. The 2nd one is winter wonderland perfect.

[Dave Watkins]

Beautiful light and subtle tones. Really nice Tom.

[Kent DuFault]

I am still having a problem with nesting… for some reason.

[Pat Garrett]

Up front I’ll admit – it wasn’t snowing when I shot this but snow was due to start shortly and I also admit exaggerating the lighthouse beam. This is Portland Headlight at the entrance of Portland Harbor (ME), commissioned by George Washington and said to be the most photographed lighthouse. (It is our Christmas Card this year). We have had about 10″ so far this year. Each holiday season they hang a lighted wreathe. Enlarged shows better detail.

[LeanneC]

That is an amazing image, Pat! I love the “additions” and now I have another lighthouse that I want to visit. Beautiful!

[Dave Watkins]

I’m sure it made a beautiful Christmas card.

[Pat Garrett]

Yesterday, newly fallen snow softly dressed last falls “weeds”. Morning sun reflected off the crystals like gems – which you can’t really see in the softness.

[Virgie C. Alexander]

lol, very fun

[Rob Wood (Admin)]

Hmmm, bushfires and smoke aren’t gonna cut it in this thread…

[DaveGillespie]

We had a brief dusting here on the wet coast of British Columbia.

[Bruce Gordon]

I simply love that image Leanne!

[Bruce Gordon]

This is an impressive image Preston! As sharp as can be, and the snow on the roof is perfect! Well done!

[Preston]

Sorry I missed your comment Bruce (as everyone knows, nesting issues).  Thanks for the comments!

[Bruce Gordon]

I love it Pat! The perfect Christmas card!

[Bruce Gordon]

Great shot! But yeah….too cold for me!

[Robert Apple]

Well Leanne, spring to summer to fall weather lasted all of 4 months this year, some call it global warming, some call it climate change, I call it F’ing cold, here lately going home from work kind of feels like this.

I had to shoot this several times because it had these weird refractions in it, I finally figured out my breath was freezing into ice crystals which were falling in front of the lens is was so damn cold.

[LeanneC]

Oh wow! When you can see your breath freeze, it must be pretty cold! I don’t envy you the long winter. I love having four seasons, but those four seasons have to know their place!

[LeanneC]

Not my typical snow images but thought I would share a couple of images from our Christmas tree hunt. It snowed! But the amount of snow on the ground is far less than typical for us. Some years we wade through a few feet.

The pine was a classic Charlie Brown tree, which my youngest pointed out had lots of room for gifts and our cat (who loves to lie under the tree). We settled on a douglas fir which my husband packed back.

 

[Brad]

A reminder that not everyone gets to come in out of the snow…

[Pat Garrett]

Thanks, Leanne – you get yourself here and I’ll show you several lighthouses!

[Pat Garrett]

@dave Watkins and @ Bruce Gordon – thank you for stopping to comment. (my posts still aren’t “nesting”, but I see others aren’t either)  Pat

[Erik Fransman]

2017. No snow to speak of since then.

[LeanneC]

Love the red carriage in the snow and trees, Erik. And the lighthouse shot is a favourite of mine as well. I remember some others you had from that area, with the sea ice. Is snow typical there or a once in awhile occurrence?

[Erik Fransman]

Leanne, these images are from 2017. In 2018 we had no snow and just a few days of below Zero (Celcius). The Canals froze for two days, eveyone on their ices skates but it was not safe at all. A few people went through the ice just a few meters in front of me.

The weather gurus expect this year to become a cold winter, but that does not have to mean snow. We’ll see.

[Bruce Gordon]

Here’s one from Boxing Day… Had to go up the hill to get this one.

[LeanneC]

Yikes Erik! Folks have to be smarter around ice. We used to live beside a lake and the joke was that we knew that it was safe to go out when the “tourists” drove their trucks out and they didn’t break through the ice.

I think I could appreciate “cold with no snow” if it meant missing the mucky spring cleanup.

[LeanneC]

I like this Bruce! I feel like I have seen these building in another image of yours?

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