Photo of the Week 2023-02-13

 

' winter homestead '

 

This place has been photographed many times and when I had the opportunity to stop by in the middle of a blizzard, I knew it would allow me to capture something different ... that and a little work in post  gave me the stark, cold, isolated look I wanted.

 

I've managed to get out and photograph during what winter weather we have had here in Southern Ontario. It's been a very mild winter, so far, with only two or three significant snowfall events, and then the snow hasn't remained on the ground long afterwards with temperatures rising to unseasonally warm levels just days after the snowfall. I'm confident that winter is not over yet, however I am not confident that that there will be more opportunity for the winter photography that I so love ... at least not until next year.

Not willing to give up yet, I am thankful for the brief periods of winter I was able to enjoy in the Rideau Lakes area and on the Bruce Peninsula to this point in 2023.

#frozenfingerphotographer

 

DJE

Photo of the Week 2018-12-31

A lovely stone house once stood on this location ... that is until a troubled soul decided to torch it along with numerous other structures in the Guelph-Eramosa-Puslinch-Erin area. 

It has been demolished and a favoured subject for my lens is no more ...

phantom homestead

I had visited this location a number of times, always keeping a respectful distance. In the beginning, it looked as if someone might still be living there. Then later the windows were boarded up.

And then the unthinkable ... it was torched.

Twice an image of this quaint stone structure graced a page in my annual calendar ... and I suspect it may again for the 2020 edition.

First an image from 2012 when I caught it sitting ever so peacefully in the mist...

Next from 2017 after I learned that it had succumbed to flame and freshly boarded windows made it look as if the lights were still on ...

A suspect has been arrested and charged with 7 counts of arson, but not for the fire that destroyed this favoured subject. In all over 20 suspicious fires were recorded through 2016,17,18 and several other structures that I had enjoyed photographing no longer stand

from Guelph Mercury October 30, 2017

What a shame ...

DJE