This is my contribution to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: The cold light of day prompt.
Being a morning person and as dawn and sunrise is frequently the coldest part of the day I decided to go with a small selection of photos taken at dawn in winter and featuring ice or snow.
Frozen and partially snow covered slough with a weak sun pillar at dawn. Photographed near Punnichy, Saskatchewan, Canada. Ice on Colpoy’s Bay at dawn with clouds over the Niagara Escarpment on the South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, Canada. Snow covered farmland at Hatherton near Nantwich in southern Cheshire, England at dawn. Cracked ice on the Colpoy’s Bay shoreline at dawn. Photographed on the South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, Canada.
Absolutely spectacular colours, David, these are incredible.
Thanks Dale. To be honest I had too many to choose from which is why I went with dawn in winter. It narrowed down the selection and I could go for various locations and variety in the snow and ice.
A fine selection, they’re fabulous
Now I’m wondering if I shouldn’t have gone with a sequence of photos from a few years ago when the local bay froze, thawed, refroze before the wind blew the ice out of the bay and then blew it back in. I’ll have to try to remember that idea for a post.
Do you get great big clusters of ice balls in the bay there?
I’ve never seen them on the local bay but when I lived close to Lake Huron we had some one winter at least. You quickly realise that no two winters are the same as regards the way the lakes and bays freeze up.
Very beautiful photos, much similar to here ☺️💗
Thanks. We’re having another strange winter with less snow than normal and until recently higher temperatures than normal.
Oh, it’s opposite here, a lot of snow and often even -30° recently.
We’ve only been down to -20°C once and there’s about two thirds of the snow we would normally have in mid February.
Spectacular images, David.
Thanks Ann-Christine. I don’t know if I would be prepared to stand around at -30°C while the sun rose these days. But when I was living in Saskatchewan, Canada that was the norm in winter.
I see – too cold for fingers and feet.
I got a touch of frostbite a couple of winters ago. My body doesn’t seem to handle the cold as well as I get older.
I guess that is very natural.
Stunning pic!
Thanks. I went with a set of four featuring either snow or ice having so many to choose from.
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Absolutely spectacular colours, David, these are incredible.
Thanks Dale. To be honest I had too many to choose from which is why I went with dawn in winter. It narrowed down the selection and I could go for various locations and variety in the snow and ice.
A fine selection, they’re fabulous
Now I’m wondering if I shouldn’t have gone with a sequence of photos from a few years ago when the local bay froze, thawed, refroze before the wind blew the ice out of the bay and then blew it back in. I’ll have to try to remember that idea for a post.
Do you get great big clusters of ice balls in the bay there?
I’ve never seen them on the local bay but when I lived close to Lake Huron we had some one winter at least. You quickly realise that no two winters are the same as regards the way the lakes and bays freeze up.
Very beautiful photos, much similar to here ☺️💗
Thanks. We’re having another strange winter with less snow than normal and until recently higher temperatures than normal.
Oh, it’s opposite here, a lot of snow and often even -30° recently.
We’ve only been down to -20°C once and there’s about two thirds of the snow we would normally have in mid February.
Spectacular images, David.
Thanks Ann-Christine. I don’t know if I would be prepared to stand around at -30°C while the sun rose these days. But when I was living in Saskatchewan, Canada that was the norm in winter.
I see – too cold for fingers and feet.
I got a touch of frostbite a couple of winters ago. My body doesn’t seem to handle the cold as well as I get older.
I guess that is very natural.
Stunning pic!
Thanks. I went with a set of four featuring either snow or ice having so many to choose from.