Saturday, January 29, 2011

Winter's beauty






For a scenic photographer many times winter is looked on as "down time" until spring. Everything seems a little bland for taking pictures with all the white snow and little color. That is not always true, if you know where to look. Today I was out looking for places to take pictures and I decided to take some close up pictures of the trees with the freshly fallen snow. As you can see by the photos not everything is bland and colorless. There is still a lot of color and beauty with the winter snow. What an amazing God we have that brings us the beauty of winter!

Saturday, January 1, 2011







What does a person do on New Year's Day when it is cold and windy outside and warm and toasty inside the house? I decided to upload a few pictures of winter scenes that I recently took. There is nothing exceptional about the pictures, except that they show some of the beauty of winter. There are 2 sets of each of the 3 pictures. One set is in full color and one set is in Black and White. Winter time lends itself to black and white photography because of the contrast the white snow has against background. I haven't taken a lot of pictures this winter and several of the ones I took I also deleted because they simply had little character to them. I am still looking for the ideal place to take photos in the winter where I can also take pictures of wildlife. If you know of such a place, please let me know. Meanwhile enjoy the pictures and enjoy the winter weather.