A little over three weeks ago things looked very different. We had snow and it felt like we were going to have a bit of winter after all. But it only lasted a couple of days. And as you saw from my previous post, spring is here already. And as I said, very early this year.
Trunks (1/500s @ f/4, 50mm, ISO 200)
A week is still left of March, but spring is already here. Which is about a month earlier than we would expect. We have had an unusually mild winter here. We have hardly had any snow, and we have only had a few days where temperatures have been below 0˚C both night and day. We have had mild winters before, but this is something completely different. And it does feel ominous.
Snowdrops (1/100s @ f/8, MACRO 75mm equivalent, ISO 50)
Shadow patterns (1/180s @ f/5.6, 50mm, ISO 200)
Frozen in time (1/750s @ f/4, 50mm, ISO 200)
At the latitude where I live, the sun barely rises above the horizon this time of year. During the day the sun rises to just under 10 degrees above the horizon. (If you hold your hand at arm's length and close one eye, the width of your fist covers about 10 degrees of your field of view.) Dawn and dusk stretches out in time and the light is soft and warm, yielding nice sunrises and sunsets.
Winter sunrise (1/360s @ f/5.6, 35mm, ISO 400)
It is wintertime, but with temperatures between 0°C and almost 10°C it feels a bit more like we are in early spring rather than midwinter. Normally temperatures would be below minus 5°C at this time of year. What little snow we've had so far this winter, melted soon after it arrived. But with temperatures varying as much as they do, you can find nice frost patterns as the one in this image. These patterns form as the water starts to freeze, in this case from a shallow body of water on top of older ice.
Frost patterns (1/180s @ f/5.6, 50mm, ISO200, 16x9 crop)
I was browsing through some old photos, and found myself returning to this image. The image is taken a couple of years ago, and it is taken in the Lofoten Islands. The weather was like this for almost 10 days in a row. Nice "holiday weather", but for photography it can be a bit too nice. On the other hand, perfect conditions at night for watching the aurora.
Sjøbakken, Haukland (0.2s @ f/11, 28mm equivalent, ISO 50)
Reflection, Lærdalsøyri (2,5s @ f/11, 35 mm equivalent, ISO 50)
Tree trunks (1/250s @ f/2, 75mm , ISO 400)
The old house (1/160s @ f/5.6, 35 mm equivalent, ISO125)
“Autumn leaves” is perhaps the jazz standard, composed by Joseph Kosma with lyrics by the French poet Jacques Prévert. Both audience and musicians seems to never tire of that song. And I guess those of us who live in a parts of the world where we are fortunate enough to experience the changing seasons never tire of the colourful autumn leaves.
Autumn leaves (1/90s @ f/4, 50mm, ISO 200)
Mirror Image II (1/1000s @ f/2.8, 50mm, ISO 200)