Just because it starts snowing in Crested Butte in October and the Winter Solstice is just before Christmas doesn’t mean we can enjoy winter photography immediately. Snow as a subject is a very fickle thing. I, personally, like it white, fresh and deep. Only recently have those requirements been met here in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. El Nino years often mean scant snowfall in the central mountains. This year has been no exception.
But now…we have deep, white fresh snow for those winter photo ops. And blue skies too!
Paradise Divide in Winter
So it’s time to get out there, get inspired and make some new images.
The Photographer’s Guild which meets now and then for coffee and conversation has been discussing creativity and marketing lately. This week we all decided to go out and photograph something we normally would not. Try a new subject, a different angle, a lens we haven’t used in a while, etc. It’s fun to try new things when there is nothing else really going on. It builds our confidence in solving problems when we’re busy and expands our “bag of tricks”. Can’t have too many “tricks”! So my personal challenge this week is to not photograph shadows on snow. That sometimes is the only thing I really see when I go out on crisp winter days. I know there’s more out there but I seem to have blinders on sometimes. Any ideas?
By the way, be sure to check out Mars in the East right after sunset. You can’t miss it. It’s the reddish big dot in the sky.
Later….