Winter light weighs in on bright and beautiful mornings with a brilliant crispness that is so wonderful to behold -- and yet that same time of year brings us the leaden, threatening skies which foretell only more snow and bluster.
Winter is an ideal subject across the landscape. Winter light is compelling, strong, brilliant, and beautiful. Winter light is also absorbing, sometimes tentative, sometimes threatening; a stormy sky often means a good afternoon deep in our abode with a good book. Photographers find winter light compelling in many ways with a story to be told that frequently simply can't be heard or seen in the other seasons of the year.
Photography has been a lifelong and always-absorbing interest that leaves no idle time. As a winter person, there is nothing more invigorating than an early morning rising before dawn -- out the door before the sun is really above the horizon -- with an eye for a day spent chasing shadows and that changing winter light. Railroads have also been a lifelong passion, as well as landscapes and animal tracks in new snow. Railroads, wildlife, iceboats racing on the Hudson River, mountains, subjects all. Traditional film-based photography brings a pleasure and a sense of craft that may well be similar to what a writer feels, capturing a subject in a manner that describes and yet also brings an inner satisfaction. Best in winter, winter light.
