photos from the past 40 years
A selection of winter visitors for the Weekly Prompts Photo Challenge: Visitors.
These bird species move from their breeding grounds to spend the winter in different locations.
A feeding Whooper Swan, a winter visitor to the Martin Mere Wildfowl and Wetland Centre, Lancashire, England.
A male Common Redpoll, a winter visitor to Punnichy, Saskatchewan, Canada.
A Fieldfare, a winter visitor to Cheshire, England.
A Snowy Owl, a winter visitor to southern Ontario, Canada.
Chantry Island at sunrise in winter.
Lake Huron, Saugeen Shores, Ontario, Canada.
My contribution to Six Word Saturday.
This is my contribution to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: Playing with Light.
The photo was taken in the winter, that’s frazil ice on Lake Huron in the foreground. Which means it also works with the Winter’s Breath challenge.
Mother nature is playing with light supported in a very minor way by me. This is Chantry Island and its lighthouse with a giant sun pillar behind the island. Chantry Island is just off the Lake Huron shoreline in Southampton, Ontario, Canada.
Sun pillars form when the sun is on or below the horizon at sunrise or sunset. The pillar is the reflection of the sun in ice crystals suspended in the air.
My contribution to the playing with light is timing the exposure to coincide with the flashing of the light in the lighthouse. I would count seconds after a flash and release the shutter at five seconds just before the light flashed again.
Throwback Thursday travels back to Cheshire, England in the 1980s.
Each winter two species of Thrush visit the U.K. Fieldfare and Redwing arrive in the U.K. from northern Europe. Often traveling in flocks the first sighting each autumn is seen by some people as a sign that winter is on its way.
This is a Fieldfare and this individual had found a good food supply. It’s taken up residence in an abandoned orchard where there are lots of windfall apples in the grass.
This is my contribution to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: White.
I decided to go with a minimalist shot of snow.
This is my contribution to the Tuesday Photo Challenge – Peace.
I have found getting out with a camera early in the morning is a good time for some peace and quiet. In the summer, sunrise is so early that there’s rarely other people about. In the winter the weather can keep people indoors.
Taken on this year’s summer solstice. Early enough in the morning that I had the dock at Colpoy’s Bay to myself.
A sunrise close to the winter solstice last year. At this time of year I often have the Colpoy’s Bay dock to myself.
This is my contribution to the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Cold.
Here’s a selection of four cold winter shots covering the past four decades.
Frost and snow covered farmland near Audlem, Cheshire, England in the 1980s.
A frozen section of marsh at dusk, Little Quill Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada in the 1990s.
A mostly frozen and snow covered Lake Huron with Chantry Island and its lighthouse, Ontario, Canada at sunset in the 2000s.
A section of a frozen Colpoy’s Bay, Ontario, Canada at sunrise taken in the 2010s.
