Icicle Frost Spray After days of hard frost, the grasses and mosses along the banks of the cascade were coated in layers of frozen spray. A long time exposure contrasted the flow against the static icicles. “Emotion, because it brings feeling and connects you to feeling, allows you to recognise different states of conciousness. The […]
Frost needles on birch twig As I write this we have an inch of fluffy snow, on top of a layer of ice. There was one morning during the week when we had sunshine and a crisp blue sky, with these needles of ice sprouting from every blade of grass and twig. After an hour […]
Ice patterns – toned black and white Although I have converted this photo to black and white and given it a toning effect, the colours are not that far off from the original, with warm sunset colours on the blue ice. I liked the contrast at the edge of the unfrozen pools. We’ve had quite […]
Moon at the stone-circle tree Winter has come. After an incredibly stormy week for us I awoke to a half inch of snow this morning, and ice everywhere. I took a walk out on the moor this afternoon, to get my feet in the snow, and went out to the ancient stone circle (actually a […]
Crescent moon and sunset afterglow, midwinter. Taken while cross-country skiing out in the woods near Aviemore. Although it was long after sunset (about mid-afternoon…) the sky was bright and the snow reflecting the pinks and purples lit my way home. The Highlands have been in a Scandinavian weather system all week, with temperatures down to […]
Sunset on Ice. Loch Insh, Strathspey. After several sub-zero days the ice had built up, with shoreline pressure-triangles created by the wind in the initial freeze. The swans ‘trumpeting’ from the nearby marshes added to the late afternoon atmosphere. Now? Thick snow falls and I’ve been out playing on my skis all morning! As we […]
Frosted cotoneaster. After several sub-zero days the frost is building up. The blackbirds have taken up residence in this cotoneaster, chuckling over the plentiful berry supply. “Suffering, even great physical pain and emotional loss, dissolves when you stop looking at it and for it. It disappears when you stop agreeing with it or fighting it. […]
