Start of the Winter Shooting Season

[Polar01]

Well we finally have some cold weather to start the winter shooting season, that is not to say that it has not been cold in other parts of Canada, just not here in the banana belt along the north shore of Lake Ontario. So we have a nice cool -14C, no wind and steam coming off the warm water of the lake. I get out to take a shot and the camera flashes "E", no card, twenty-five minutes later I am back after getting a card. However the feel of the shot has mainly gone, still nice I take one anyways. That I was liking was the soft colours of the sky along with the gold tint to the water.

Cheers Allan

[Downrigger]

I don't know what you missed going back for the card, but to me what you got is very very beautiful. Evocative of space and light and air of which I am deeply fond. It brings up an issue in "judging art".

I've got a lot of northern places in my history (Vermont, Minnesota among some of them) and have a deep affection for winter and all of its expressions. So I can feel the scene and hear the water as you have captured them and this appeals to me very much. I wonder whether my appreciation is different from someone never in the ice and snow, who never learned to love it, or from one of the many who really didn't like winter at all from the get go, whether they have escaped it or not.

My guess is that the experience and affections of the viewer affect the appreciation of the image very much. As much as I suppose all the lovely dog photos here don't mean as much to dog non-lovers they do to dog lovers. Objectively, seeing your image only as a piece of art, I think I can judge it excellent for its tones and forms independently of my affection for what it represents, but am not sure.

[kdoc856]

Bravo, Allan.

Mark summarized it beautifully, but as a fellow lover of winter, you have captured it perfectly and transported me there.

[Wavelength]

Excellent

[Polar01]

Mark and Kevin it takes a lover of winter so see the beauty in it, instead of hearing it's too cold to go out. Winter shooting is like shooting a sunrise, a lot of people do like to look at images shot at that hour, however they have never experienced seeing a sunrise (too early) or a winter's day (too cold out) so here's to winter shooting.
Nandakumar thanks.

Cheers: Allan