Posted February 3rd, 2009

A Shadow Cast on a White Crystal Sea

It has been a brutal couple of months and most of my time outside braving the elements has necessarily been dedicated to the perpetual tasks of clearing snow and handling firewood while my camera has sat idle. But this day just past, finally I had the opportunity to strap on the snowshoes and set out to take some pictures. The trail that had been well packed earlier in the winter was now deeply buried and I didn’t make a lot of distance as the snowshoes sank almost knee deep with each step, but it was good to be out there, enjoying temperate weather and the strengthening February sunshine and seeing the world through a viewfinder again. Deep, undisturbed snow offers one great benefit for a photographer: it buries all but the tallest plants, providing a wealth of wonderfully simple, graphic compositions like this one.
Pentax K10D, Tamron AF 18-250mm f/3.5-6.3 DiII LD IF Macro @ 120mm, f/11