[Ken Rennie Participant Posts: 153]

Landscape & Nature Photography

on: August 28, 2019 at 6:56 pm

We don’t often get snow here but 2 winters ago was an exception. This forced me to take images from within walking distance of my house. Taken during a snowstorm I hadn’t realised just how snow minimised distractions until I saw the image on a monitor. I also didn’t realise the effect of shutter speeds on the image. I should have walked down closer to the trees and will probably have to wait several years before we get conditions like this again. Ken

[Kevin Raber Silver Member Posts: 1311]

Re: In the bleak midwinter

Reply #1 on: August 28, 2019 at 11:09 pm

I love snowy dat photos. Well done. I have a series I will publish soon in snow like this. The light and tonality takes on a special feel.

Kevin Raber
Owner and Publisher of photoPXL

[Mike Nelson Pedde Participant Posts: 641]

Re: In the bleak midwinter

Reply #2 on: August 29, 2019 at 3:33 pm

Beautiful work. Snow does wonderful things to light.

 

When I was a kid living in southern Manitoba and then eastern Quebec, we’d get 6+ feet of snow every year. When working as an environmental consultant for a pipeline construction job in northern Ontario, if the thermometer was below -35 deg C at 7:00 a.m. they’d shut down because the equipment would freeze up, but if it was -32 and the windchill was -60 or less, it was a regular 12-hour day.

Here in Victoria we get a really good winter every ten years or so. I’d like to say I miss it, but I really don’t. I can always go up island to Mount Washington if I feel a burning need to get the snowshoes out of the basement. 🙂

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Mike Nelson Pedde
Victoria, BC
https://www.wolfnowl.com/

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