The Quiet Picture

Finding my voice in the silence of nature

Jan 9

Tolerable

The cold spell has finally broken. I always say that it isn’t a proper winter if the temperature doesn’t dip below -20 degrees centigrade but four weeks of it in a row… is a bit a much, only a handful of days when it wasn’t quite that cold. Somehow I prefer my photo excursions without frozen toes, fingers, face and camera gear. Tiny little pine (I think) with snow in the afternoon sunWhen the tripod leg locks freeze, it’s too cold for photography! Anyway, today it was only -12°C so really a pleasant day to be out, I picked the afternoon so I could see the sunset. It wasn’t very interesting though because it was all clear skies, so what I would really have needed was an interesting silhouette against the blue/orange post-sunset gradient. But all of these cold temperatures also mean that it hasn’t been snowing, and the existing snow we have is looking a bit old. The scenery is somehow broken with only patches of snow hanging on the trees, but sometimes you find something that the wind hasn’t destroyed yet so you just have to take the opportunity then.

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  1. Miika January 9th, 2010 9:46 pm

    As a thumbnail the pic looked like…awesome, I thought, where did she find that high and steep hill in such a perfect light and all. And then the full size was slightly disappointing, to be honest :D

    It is still perfect composure and really good pic, I just wish it was full grown tree :)

  2. Minna January 9th, 2010 9:57 pm

    Haha, you’re right, if it was a fully grown tree it would be awesome! I would have to be standing on a high cliff, looking down on an open marsh with a lonely tree… I wish we had a place like that here. :D

    But the opportunity to play with shadow and light was too good to miss. Even in small scale. ;)

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