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Winter’s Beauty – pt 5

Snow in Spring

Just when you thought that I might not mention Winter again, I ran across this image from last year that wasn’t actually from Winter…

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Spring is coming!

Last year, I captured this image on March 29th, so it really was Spring!  The Winter of 2015 was by far the snowiest in my memory of New England.  This little vista appeared before me when I went for a short walk, while my wife was getting a herding lesson with on of our dogs.

Hope you enjoy the Spring that is coming (and Autumn for those of you in the Southern Hemisphere).

Technical Details

This was shot with an iPhone 5S using the standard camera app.

Winter’s Beauty – pt 2

Follow the fence line

Another entry in the short series on Winter’s Beauty that gives us in the northern hemisphere  a chance to look back at the season that is giving way to warmer days.

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Cold Morning

This is another image from last year’s outing with John Slonina Photography along the northern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire coast.

This was during the earlier part of the outing on Plum Island, Massachusetts.  The wind was still blowing and the sun was well-filtered by the heavily overcast sky.  As you might guess, I laid down in the snow to get this angle on the snow fence that is well buried.

Technical Details

Shot with a Canon EOS 5D Mk III and a EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM lens.  Exposure settings were 1/25 second at f/5 at 125 ISO.  A circular polarizing filter was used.

Another Shot of Cold…

Snow on the beach

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Beachscape in Winter

In my earlier post, I talked a bit about finding a nice frozen waterfall to photograph, which was a blast. In case you thought that to be an isolated incident, let me set you straight with a couple of images from a tour of beaches on the Massachusetts Northshore and Southern New Hampshire.

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Crashing Waves

These are from the end of January, 2015, on a day that was windy and raw, as you can see from the waves crashing on boulders at the beach.  Luckily, I was dressed for this with warm boots, ski pants and sufficient layers to keep me comfortable.

Most of the day was pretty much overcast, which left the light rather flat…

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Flotsam

But in the afternoon, the sun started showing itself a bit more, which provided wonderful opportunity to photograph some of the more interesting pieces on the beach.

I wholeheartedly recommend going out on cold days to explore places that most people only visit when it’s warm.

Shot of the Week – vol 6

Embrace the Sun

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Embrace the Sun

Yes, she’s back!  Here we find the Yoga Tree gently embracing the Sun, as it rises up into the Winter sky.  A heavily overcast day with a glimpse of better light to come along the horizon.

Simple beauty is something we can often find during this season, as form and shape stand out more than color at this time of year.

Hope you enjoy this one and have a wonderful day!

Instant Grammar – page 4

On page 4, we find ourselves in the cold of Winter with Thoughts of Spring.

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Thoughts of Spring

Of course, one may think that those thoughts are a bit premature, given that the image was captured on January 7th and plenty of cold and snow could reasonably be expected… While that is certainly the case, seeing the farm tractor catching glorious sunlight got me thinking of Spring well before its arrival!

In an instant, I knew that the farmer was prepared for the next season to arrive and take on the tasks to get his fields ready for whatever their purpose was to be.  It was almost as if Winter allowed me to peek into a diorama of things to come…

A little piece of magic for all of us to enjoy!

I hope you enjoyed my musings about page 4 and feel free to take a look at the entire book at the following link for the softcover versionInstant Grammar 2013 by Frank Jansen or for the hardcover version Instant Grammar 2013 (Hardcopy) by Frank Jansen