WOODLAND TRANSFORMATION
The first snow has arrived, most of us goes almost bananas over this cold wet thing, a few of us start dreaming about spring and colours, but not me. I’m no big fan of winter and snow. I do love beautiful winter images, but I don’t like going out looking for compositions. I want colours and light, not all white light and almost just black and white colours.
But after I start photographing I realized I just had to at least try to get excited, so, hey, the snow has arrived, happy thoughts!!
No, it doesn’t work that way for me, my memories from a long time back about working 24/7 removing all that snow from roads, parkingspaces and pavement still haunts me. Hopefully I’m finished with that kind of work, but the sleepless night, even days still sit in the back of my head. So no big excitement here.
Still, I do have to see if it’s possible to find a few compositions even with snow. I feel the moody feeling when almost everything is white isn’t so easy to find anymore, and the feeling have been difficult even with colours and leaves on the trees.
Suddenly I’m left with just a grey blanket, not black and white, GREY. Hopefully I can keep on searching for light, it should be possible to find some kind of contrast in the light between the trees.
Luckily there are some small nuances in the white snow, and some texture, but most of it disappear between the spotted background of snow and gras. It feels messy and cluttered, and a bit of frustration does start to boil under the surface. Scouting has become harder, my composition need to be stronger to reach through to the viewers. I that way winter and snow help my photography, wish I had some fog, it makes wonder to an image. The way an image change in foggy conditions are amazing, that soft blur from the fog gives your composition an amazing depth. this dreamy look works amazing in woodland photography but something I’ve barely touch since I started photographing
My first "winter woodland" image this year, not so much colours, but the ambient light worked well. It manage to give a bit of depth to the image, and show of some interest in the background. Wished for some fog in the background, the image would have changed dramatically and that dreamy look would lifted the composition to another level. Still happy with the result, feel the colours works nice, the light does work as I hoped it would. The small path leading into the background also works nicely, and since the photographer are happy this image goes into the sharable folder and onto my woodland page.
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Thanks for taking your time reading,
Cheers,
Jhonny
