Showing posts with label Winter Wonders. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Winter Wonders. Show all posts

Monday, 7 January 2019

That's Nice!




Today's selection of pictures were taken last week on my trip to Snowdonia. Surrounded by mountains, lakes and big skies you might expect me to focus on the larger landscape but in the ice and frost there is a great deal of beauty in the little things. Like these frozen dewdrops and ice crystals on the grass.

I had to get down on my knees in the frosty grass to get these images and I was glad to have a mat to kneel on.

I love the different shapes of the dewdrops, some even had their own icicles and rather than a smooth surface as I had expected they all had a veined appearance and you can see the individual crystals that make up the frost which from a higher perspective looks like a solid white coating. Simply beautiful.

Thursday, 3 January 2019

Surprisingly Beautiful




These strangely beautiful plants are the skeletal remains of the perennial Cow Parsley. I think they are really photogenic especially on a cold, crisp winter's day like it was on New Year's Day especially when viewed through a macro lens.