Category: Frost

Norwegian November

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Winter can be a beautiful time with frosted leaves and and a drizzle of light snow over the green moss. But often it is heavy rain and constant lack of color. The sunrise is late in the morning and the sunset is early in the afternoon. But sometimes the sun shines and the trees covered with frost sparkles in the sunshine.

If you walk slowly and take time to notice your surroundings you will find colors or beautiful details like in the photos below. The little mushroom surprised by the first snow and a frosty night. A forgotten red apple outside an abandoned house and the ice crystals on the dry, brown fern leaves.

December vibes

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Nature changes when winter arrives and cover the forest with white snow and the leaves, still on the branches, is decorated with frost. It’s just like the forest prepares for the Christmas holidays.

The first snow

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It is late November and the other day the first snow started floating in the cold air. Quiet it fell to the ground like someone was sprinkling icing sugar over the landscape. The grainy, tiny snowflakes covered the dead, brown plants and brought back the shape of the leaves. Mushrooms was decorated with a layer of white ice crystals. The first hint of winter has arrived and soon the whole landscape will turn completely white.

Still

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No sign of spring
winter lingers on
cold mornings
clear blue sky
nature covered in snow
ice builds bridges 
cross the creek
with running water
just a few more days now

March

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My favorite month of the year. Finally the snow is melting and soon trees are budding and spring flowers will bloom. Nature comes to life again.

Awaiting

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Ice covers the pond
like wrapping paper for
the frozen water plants
just beneath the surface

Sunbeam melts the ice
inch by inch unwrapping
again the pond gives life to
the frozen waterlily
Frozen water lily leaves (at Ble in Norway)

Moody winter

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Here in Norway and Scandinavia the winter month of January can be though. It can be very cold and the days are quite short. So when the sky is grey and cloudy the surroundings look like a black and white landscape. Now that February has arrived the days are starting to get a little bit longer. Now the sun rise at 0815 and set at 1645.

Doing macro photography can be difficult this time of the year, as it is dependent of a sufficient amount of light. Photographing leaves is fun as they comes in so many shapes. During winter they turn grey or black, but some times you can find some that have some colors left. Like this rowan (in the photo below), it still has some deep brown color. The landscape behind is all in shades of grey and the brown leaf stand a little bit out due to the frosty edges. Winter may be colorless but it is beautiful in many ways.