Well, it seems I spoke to soon in my recent ‘Winterlude’ post. It’s a flippin’ Winter Wonderland out there today. Also, looking at the last one, it seems this blog’s all about the white stuff at the moment. Anyway, for once there was a conjunction of fresh snow, good light and some free time today so I took the camera out for a walk. Even tatty old LE3 looks pretty good in the snow.
Judging by my car’s windscreen, not everyone’s too pleased with things. The local East Europeans were all out enjoying themselves with their kids though - meat and drink to them I suppose. Let’s hope the English Defence League got thoroughly frost bitten on their pathetic little march through Leicester yesterday.
Here are a few of the photos I took…
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| There's Leicester's Famous Positive Attitude Again |
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| It Seems Everyone's a Philosopher |
And these are some of the visual things I like about snow…
1: The total change in illumination and the way light bounces back up off the ground, roofs, etc.
2: Bright blue shadows.
2: Bright blue shadows.
3: The erasure of so much inconsequential detail and simplification of the world into simple blocks of tone and colour.
4: The relationship between the white of the snow and the winter sky, upsetting our assumption that the sky’s the brightest area of any scene.
5: The way it affects perceived tonal contrasts and saturation of colours.
6: The complex textural record of all the tyres and feet that pass through it.
7: The transformation of Britain from a land of grey, green and brown. Even the East
Midlands seem a little more exotic.
8: The brief sense that everything just got cleaner.
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