We got a healthy dose of snow last night, so naturally I captured a handful of pictures of the freshly driven snow before I got started shoveling my way out.
In this scene, taken from my deck, the wind chimes just look perfectly suited for a day like this.
This is one of my favorite trees. In every season, it always looks so majestic. I believe trees are our ancestors somehow. They have so much wisdom and poise, there is much that can be learned about living well, just by observing the ways of the tree.
In the top of this image you can see the Japanese red maple. Here we are standing under the red maple and facing roughly southwest.
This bad boy must be pretty old cuz these guys are real slow growers with a super dense wood. This tree is actually where I do my pull-ups, and I use a branch that’s only about 2” in diameter…nice strong stuff.
In the bottom, you can see the snow covered ground and the pasture across the street. I tend to capture images of this view throughout the year - for me it just never gets old.
This is another view with the red maple in the foreground, but our perspective has rotated 90 degrees to face northwest. These types of photo shoots are always a fun challenge as I try to avoid houses and cars being in frame. It makes for beautiful nature pictures, but if you came to my house and saw these scenes in person you’d get an entirely different feel from the area.
Certainly the most uneventful of all the images I’m sharing today, but still, the stark contrast between the snow and the green life emerging was too beautiful to leave unrecognized.
Here we have the rising sun seen through the branches of the red maple. Any time I am able to capture the sun coming through the trees, I basically have to get it.
This scene excited me because of the contrasting red and green at play. Here we are looking at evergreen foliage through the red maple, but in this composition the two colors almost seem to each fill half of the canvas.
These are my memorial benches, shown partially but almost completely out of frame. For as long as I’ve been able, I always take veterans’ day off. I usually use that time to play my flute and get my yard ready for winter, but both the past two years as I’m cutting down the dead trees to remove them, I’ve thought - why not use one of these trees to make a bench? And since I had free time, I did it! Now I’ve got one from 2020 and one from 2021, and a small fire ring in between them.
But the intended subject in this image was the tree that can be seen more really as part of the background. I originally intended to crop the image so this would be more natural, but decided that I liked it since this way it tells two stories!
Same red maple as above here, but this scene was captured facing almost perfectly east. This image I think does a nice job of uniting life and death, as the dead pine tree jutting out from behind the red maple integrates beautifully into the scenery, despite the fact that it is no longer breathing.
This last one is another favorite perspective, especially when there’s fresh snow on the ground. This is a west-facing perspective, and though I’m not sure what type of tree it is we’re looking through, it is a beautiful tree to live with year-round :)
…thanks for checking out my photos, I hope they were able to inspire you, the witness, with as much calm and peace as they give me :)
EDIT: After posting, I immediately saw this post from @borepstein. If you enjoy winter-scape photography, this is another really nice collection :)
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Wow! This is nice.
You are quite some ways to the South of us, so this is probably far more of a rarity for you there, than it is for us here.
Great pictures!
And thanks for the promotion, too. 😀
Thanks! I thought you might be somewhere further north - your pictures seem to have a lot more snow coverage than mine :)
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