by Steve Tanham
Winter…
Most, but not all, of the colours are gone. What remains is a harder edge of the spectrum, where contrast is to be hunted rather than assumed.
And texture and shade take on a different level of purpose; to stand in for the vividness of summer’s colour, to beckon our eye to look deeper.
The sky is the photographer’s winter friend, donating half the ‘seen world’ as a constantly shifting and often vivid backdrop…
But you have to be fast with the shutter. A second of hesitation and the moment you glimpsed can have moved on… or mellowed in a way that only colour would have rescued.
It’s a kind of hunt, a quest. But one where the world comes to you. All you have to do is be ready…
©Stephen Tanham, 2020.
Sun in Gemini 
Great pictures, Steve. I know about your changing sky’s in the UK because I have been to Scotland in summer – well, they said it was summer [smile]. We pretty much have clear blue skies all year round, even if its cold. Our winter temperature averages at 22 degrees Celsius at midday.
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Thank you, Robbie. How I envy you those temperatures! Scotland in summer is a matter of luck. You can get really lucky in the spring – May time – but it’s never guaranteed…
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Masterful! Ever shifting, nature is such a challenge. x
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Thank you, Joy! Yes, but she’s so beautiful… 😎
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I can relate to all of this, Steve. Great photography as usual! Winter can seem a poor time for photography, but you’re right, it invites us to look deeper, closer, more inwards.
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Thank you, Michael. A challenge for sure, but it makes it more fun in these short days? When is the happy retirement day?
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It certainly does, Steve. I retire on Friday a free man at noon!
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Congratulations in advance, then. What a fine moment!
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Thank you, Steve. Whatever the weather on Friday, I guarantee the sun will come out at noon!
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Lovely photos, Steve. What is the first image?
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Thank you, Caroline. It was a log of wood I had chopped for the log-burner. There was a knot in it and it separated into tow halves!
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