On a fortunate morning in February, there was frost on the ground and fog in the air. I couldn’t get the kids to school fast enough, threw my camera in my car, and headed straight for the beach. I was hoping the fog would hold and it did. This is from the lawn behind the marina by the beach. The round doughnut looking things are orange benches.
Well-used and wrinkled has a beauty of its own.
Even on December 26’th I was able to find a few green leaves.
If I was a bird I would love to eat these 🙂
I did this walk at the end of December and there was not a single splash of colour when I looked around the gardens except for the evergreens – only wilted leaves and brown branches. Yet when I looked close enough, there was indeed colour to be found.
The images in the first part of this series of winter shots were taking during a walk on December 26. after a Christmas lunch. The motives were all from a perfectly normal collection of houses with gardens, and on the surface of things the place was without much charm on this dark and dreary December day. Sometimes all you need to do is look at little closer to find beauty.
A twist i find interesting about these images I’m posting right now is they are the very first I shot with my 50mm 1.8 G prime lens. I had gotten it for Christmas two days before and while it was on my wish list I really didn’t know yet what I would be using it for. Since then it has become one of two lenses I always reach for and never would want to do without.
People who have followed my blog for a while may have noticed I tend to show summer images in the winter and visa versa. I guess I like the contrast and also the distance that sometimes makes me see better. The initial euphoria over what I captured has passed. It also gives me a chance to relive the occasion one more time rather than get it all over at once.
This is why I pulled out my Winter file while I’m sitting here sweating. Proudly Presenting: Winter 2013
While working with editing the shots from this series I am in constant wonder at how beautiful the bushes become when I move in close. Perhaps I am experiencing the magic of nature…
Another thing I love – shallow depth of field…
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