Final Frozen Monochrome Monday

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Final Frozen Monochrome Monday

The winter has certainly been a long and cold one!

I've lived on the planet for a number of years now, and I've lived in regions my entire life where we experience winters. We get the cold, snow, frozen things and all that. The good thing is that I can appreciate the changes in those years as they go by. Some years the winter is incredibly mild with very little cold or snowy weather. Other years, such as the one we had this year, are completely filled with absolutely bitter cold temperatures. When those winters are over, it is certainly a breath of fresh air!

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For this week, I decided to dig back into the archives of my previous black and white pictures to find some fun ones of the frozen wilderness. Granted this is not deep in the woods of nowhere, but it's around the cities that we live near and spend a lot of time in. They are all really nice pictures, that help me look back at how intense the weather could be, or how nice it looks!

One of the rivers that is nearby ended up freezing up the most I've ever seen it. It wasn't at all at a point where we could walk on it, but this is a FAST moving river especially in this area, and that water was frozen solid for a few feet out into the river. That's pretty wild, considering! It also, because of that, was able to produce some pretty sweet ass pictures and sceneries just like this! I love the ice shards on the morning sun, looks awesome.

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I absolutely love the look of winter weather on a beach. The lake that we spend a lot of time on has a really wonderful beach, where family has a place on the side of it. We didn't visit it much this year, but that's because we didn't get decent snow with mild temperatures after. We would get snow and then the temperature would DROP to even colder hahaha so it ended up not being very enjoyable.. and we didn't get to go sledding which sucked!

Still though, seeing the snowfall on the sandy beach with the withdrawn water, exposing the shoreline, it was such a beautiful scene! We really got to see a precious moment, because it looks really cool with the water still ice-free instead of frozen solid. It looks cool frozen solid that's for sure, but it has an increased dramatic effect when it is still water.

I think my favorite is for sure this last picture in black and white. The other ones are interesting but this one takes the cake for me! I feel like I use it fairly regularly for posts, so hopefully the picture doesn't get too used up haha.

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do you have this snow right now??
where do you live?
is your winter so long and cold?

the last pic is the best, I agree;) snow matches to blacn-n-white photos brilliantly;)

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The last picture wasn't recent but we did get some snow just a couple days ago! I live in the US!

I wanted to celebrate pushing the snow away mentally LOL I want spring now! It was funny though, driving on the high way and it was snowing like crazy!

Our winters are usually pretty long and cold, ya! I don’t mind it though, it’s a refreshing change!

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Beautiful snaps man, the monochrome effect definitely adds to the icy feeling radiating from the images. I totally agree with the idea of winter vs beach shots, I love to visit the local beach for much the same reason, I love the contrast of what we imagine a beach to be when captured out of season.

We are very much on the same page about coming out of winter, I am 100% enjoying the first sunny days of spring and seeing the first signs of blossom on the trees and flowers are starting to peek out here and there, I have spent a little time doing light work in the garden to start preparing for a 'hopefully' long hot summer and also to get my fitness levels up a little. Sometimes winter feels so, so much longer than the other 3 seasons combined.

I love the shot with the jagged ice but agree wholeheartedly that the last one, the one you use often is pretty damn stunning, you really did take some:

some pretty sweet ass pictures... 😎

I wish I had a better eye for shot composition, I guess practice is key, your captures make me want to take my camera on walks more, maybe that should be a goal moving forward.

Wishing you and yours an awesome April and a fabulous summer to follow 😎🌞

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Cheers glad you liked them man!

Taking shots is a fun bit of experimentation and practice. One of the things I wasn't used to is making sure my pictures are level, in most situations. A weird half-cocked picture doesn't work well in most settings lol. Then it's just trying to find a height or angle to display something in a cool way. I'd love to see how you practice and get better man! Your garden is a perfect spot to do the practice I think!

Yeah I'm looking forward to more time outside in the sun that's for sure! I would love some nice hot weather but we'll get there in due time. I would love some nice 60 degree weather for a few days haha.

Hope you're having a good week dude, almost to the weekend!

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I really like the icy details in this photograph.

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Thanks, yeah! The ice shards you can see are really cool! Plus a nice bit of sunlight to freshen it up!

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