Another view of Lake Pielinen from Koli
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Another view of Lake Pielinen from Koli
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Nice view of the showers from the clouds.
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Originally Posted by YesNo
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I am still puzzled by the photo 11-25-2015, 06:40 PM. You say it cannot be the sun, as that is behind you, but could it be the moon?
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Originally Posted by Dreamwoven
Oh, I'm sure that the light effects are caused by the sun and the rain clouds. I would think that the sun is in the direction of the left side of the triangle, as that appears to be a beam of sunlight coming through the clouds.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dreamwoven
Catching up, wonderful images North Star, particularly the richness of green speckled with yellow in post 3403 just above.
You get a lot of that effect in northern Scandinavia, its very beautiful, especially in parts of the north that have a high proportion of silver birch trees: Betula pendula.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
I was this close >< to mentioning birch in my post, thanks.
The yellow of the birch against the green blanketing the hills above, conjures up similar vistas in northern New Mexico, Colorado and many other parts of the Rockies with the yellow Aspen against the coniferous.
Thank you, Gilliatt.Quote:
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So I have seen in photographs - understandably, aspens get a lot of attention from American nature photographers.Quote:
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The weather was wonderful from a week ago to Tuesday - then it went back up above freezing, and all is just a dark slush again. Thank heavens I managed to visit this pond on Tuesday for some photos, one of which I shared already before.
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I will leave YesNo to comment. The ice here looks like the ice in my home village, probably the same as it is in Finland.
Regarding your two most recent images, I favor post 3410 with the added strata of the white snow(?) just creeping in at the top.Quote:
Originally Posted by North Star
Are those lights on the distant shore creating the vertical rods of reflection?
Speaking of trees, I just now stepped out to collect a few leaves from our yard.
Top row L-R: Eastern Redbud, Red Oak, Post Oak and Ash
Bottom row L-R: American Elm, Cedar Elm, Hackberry (still a little early will turn vibrant yellow) and Hawthorne.
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Nice collection, Gilliatt. We don't have such a variety in Northern Sweden. Its too late now but next autumn I will try to put together my own collection.
I find the vertical lights most interesting in your recent ones, North Star.
Setting those leaves out against the floor of the deck was an interesting way to arrange them, Gilliatt Gurgle. I could have identified those in the top row, but not the four in the bottom row.
Yes, ice is ice.Quote:
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Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
Those are reflections of birch trees on the other side of the pond.Quote:
Originally Posted by YesNo
A nice variety. Trees seen around here (in the wild) include Pine, Birch, Spruce, Rowan, Maple, Alder, European Bird Cherry, Eurasian Aspen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
Your pictures are beautiful, North Star! I think I especially love the one of the frozen lake.
Love your leaves, Gilliatt. I recognize them, but not by name. I, too, am a lover of leaves.
Thank you, qimissung. ... Which of the two? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by qimissung
(if it's leafs you want, you don't have to leaf too far back among my photos to see them)
Its amazing what you can collect. There is a very engaging short story being put together in another thread by FREI, called The Snowflake Collector.
I like the sparkles in the blue of the water.
I have been trying to make sense out of the differences in the experiences of a view of the water itself and a photo of the water and to relate these in terms of "magical realism" that was mentioned in a separate thread or Freud's "oceanic view" mentioned in another thread.
One difference is the border. There is none in the view of the water itself. The other is the detail. There is more in the photo than what we are aware of when looking at the water. I think the photo can pick up information that we might not be able to see directly, but I am not sure.
Didn't notice your post before, YesNo.
I agree that photographs can record much more detail than we generally notice when glancing at the scenery, and often things that photographer who looks much more carefully doesn't see. Here's the whole bunch at Flickr.
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From autumn:
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The ice is an unusual theme. Of your recent sets of photos, my favorite one is this:
What I like are the large colored circles of light in the background.Quote:
Originally Posted by North Star
Unusual? Perhaps. That's a good thing, I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by YesNo
Thanks. Yeah, you get that with light coming through smallish slits from ahead and with larger aperture, i.e. a shallow depth of field (i.e., when things fall out of focus rapidly).
The other day we were driving along the large lake by our village and I noticed the iced-over area was at the edges where the water was shallower, last in the deepest middle of the lake. I had never thought of it before. Its obvious when you stop to think about it, deep water takes longer to freeze.
This is the north end of the lake in summer: http://www.ockelbo.se/Invanare/Bygga...ter/NO-Bysjon/
Yes, the edges of the body of water will freeze (and melt) first, as demonstrated by Ansel Adams with this photograph.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dreamwoven
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This one by Adams has an interesting contrast between the top portion which seemed sharper and the lower softer watery part. In the middle to the left was that snow (I assume) which offered a transition.Quote:
Originally Posted by North Star
Simply love the very beautiful and artistic additions to this thread.
I could share some photos from my recent trip. I was in Vilnius and Poznan. Took night buses to both places and explored the old town during the day time. I liked the colourful architecture in the old towns and christmas celebrations adding to the beauty of place and people. It felt like in the middle of a fairytale, or a dream, making it even more so as I was partly sleepwalking having night buses (not always the most convenient place to sleep) and day walks! :D
*includes a selfie taken by myself enjoying really tasty dairy icecream in Vilnius old town*
Pensive, these are beautiful pictures of Vilnius and Poznan! I had no idea...
Nice pictures, Pensive. It is the first time I heard of these places.
Vilnius is in Lithuania and Poznan is in Poland. But like YesNo, I was not aware that they were such old beautiful towns.
Very nice pictures Pensy. Thanks for sharing.
Here are some random photos...
I took the first one when I was going for work. It's the surrounding area of a village called Gola (in KPK).
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My uncle's pet resting in our small garden.
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Snowqueen: Gola in Croatia (KPK). Nice cat, by the way.
I liked the dragonfly (or whatever it is).
Nice photos from Vilnius and Poznan, Pensive. I've visited Tallinn (many many times) and Riga but never Vilnius.
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I liked the roundness of the out-of-focus vase with the piece inside and the sharply in-focus parts of the plant.
Cheers, YesNo.
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