Taking only photographs – leaving only footprints
Yesterday I was driving through the back lanes of south Cheshire to visit my grandmother. Obviously I couldn’t drive past the above without stopping for a photograph. This is a wide angle photograph of yesterday’s icicle pattern close up. This area of iced hedge went on for over 30 feet, but all around the snow and ice had melted, which made it all the more striking. In my opinion the reflection really helps add an extra dimension to the photo.
As the weather here in England starts to get colder and frostier I thought it would be worth showcasing a couple of last years snow pictures. The picture above shows an old wooden fence in Dunham Park just outside Altrincham. Usually I would have referred to the colour of the fence as white rather than cream, however next to the pure, almost paper white of the fresh snow this wooden fence is far from white. Perhaps it is just waiting for a fresh coat of paint in the spring!
It seems a world away, but this was taken in England last winter. I had walked through the snow from my parents house to Dunham Park where I had two or three winter scenes in mind for a photograph. As a child I always liked coming to this park to look down the avenues of trees. It was quite surreal to see the park like this; I can’t ever remember seeing snow at Dunham Massey before.
It seems like a long time since we have had snow like this, but it was only a couple of months ago that I was walking around Dunham Massey with my camera. Again this photograph is all about the shape, pattern and texture that the fallen snow creates on the branches of this tree. At the time it wasn’t actually snowing, but the wind was making snow fall from the branches onto my camera. I didn’t hang around long under this particular tree for fear of getting a load of snow on my camera, or worse down the back of my neck!