Tag: Winter photography

The place of the sunsets

(📩 300 words, photo and prose. A five minute read) Our evening dog walk takes about forty minutes – a bit longer at the moment as we are looking after a friend’s blind Labrador, Rosie, and, while she’s fully mobile, she has to take things slowly and use her poor nose as eyes… We leave the house through the back gate, then pick up … Read More The place of the sunsets

Winter walks with camera (9) dull green and soft ochre

We think of winter as being full of disadvantages for the photographer, but it also brings unique colours and dynamic contrasts: from clouds in the sky to the low sun on the landscape. (200 words, a two-minute read) One of the most subtle contrasts is between the dull green of winter’s foliage and the colour of the residual life of trunk, branch, twig and … Read More Winter walks with camera (9) dull green and soft ochre

Winter walks with camera (8) first frosting

I love that fragile first coat of snow that changes the landscape like a frosting… yet leaves the main features visible behind the sheet of white. Here, the thin snow is not sufficient to do anything but emphasise the railway tracks and the tall, bordering conifer trees. There was something stark about the collie and the single post in the field near the coastal … Read More Winter walks with camera (8) first frosting

#ShortWrytz : Leaves of Winter

There’s a new park in Kendal. It nestles beneath the Fellside district. It’s an old part of the town that climbs to become one of the first fells on the way to Lake Windermere. The meeting of Lakeland fell and level park is dramatic and beautiful. The centre of the park is circular, and filled with ornamental grasses, surrounded by shrubs. Cold and frost … Read More #ShortWrytz : Leaves of Winter