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Now that winter has arrived, there should be more B&W imagery from me. There usually is when colours are gone and contrast is high with the bright white snow blanketing the ground.
I'd been on the lookout for fog and possible hoar frost in these colder temperatures and not too long ago conditions were right. Lynn had mentioned frost after returning from her morning walk with Murphy and that was enough to get me grabbing camera gear and a travel mug of coffee to head out for a morning drive.
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| forest frost flower |
DJE
Sunday morning began just like most other Sundays, I was up at 5:00 am, made coffee, sat and read in the living room for a bit before heading downstairs to the PC to work on some images. After a while, I heard Lynn up and she came down and asked when I wanted to go for our hike. I'd been away at an out of town hockey tournament Friday and Saturday and had promised her we would go for a hike when I was back. Obviously she was not going to let me forget ;-)
Since Murphy needed his morning walk, we decided to go as soon as we could be ready. Driving south of Guelph, we could see a hoar frost covering everything and backlit with the morning sun. I was hopeful we could reach the location I had in mind before the sun would rise too high. Lynn had no idea where we going until I pulled up to park on the road beside the sign at the entrance to Fletcher Creek.
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| cold blue dawn |
As we entered the preserve, I was immediately struck by the magical feel with the sun backlighting all the branches and grasses. I began looking for a spot were the sun was streaming over the cedars to illuminate an area otherwise surrounded by dark and found this ... mission accomplished.
DJE
