What is the maximum snow-weight a pine needle can bear?
Snow-capped branches
William Shakespeare
Icicles
Vail's creek
(Snow) covered bridge in Vail village
Tree reflections
Vail's cheeriest resident
Draped in Snow
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Tags: cold, Colorado, covered bridge, creek, icicles, melting snow, photo, Photography, pine cones, pine trees, snow, snowy trees, Statue, USA, Vail, Vail creek, Vail village, William Shakespeare, winter
Categories : Christmas, Cityscape, Landscape, Portrait, winter
Vail by night
17 01 2009
Snowed-in lamppost ... reminiscent of Narnia ...
Vail Main St by night
Vail Main St
Statue shrouded in snow
Bronzed deer
Melting snow by a street-fire
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Tags: Colorado, gas fire, Lamppost, melting snow, Narnia, night, photo, photographic study, Photography, snow, snowy trees, Statue, tree lights, USA, Vail, winter
Categories : Christmas, Cityscape, Landscape, winter
Kensington swans
10 01 2009This is a series I took last October of the swans that are often found at the Round Pond in Kensington Gardens, and have been meaning to post for ages. They always seem so serene and at peace with the morning – a very different mood than when they are scrapping for the bread crusts that the children and tourists distribute of an afternoon.
Just cruising
Welcoming the autumn morning
Serenity
Swan yoga
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Tags: Kensington, Kensington Gardens, London, photo, photographic study, Photography, Portrait, swan, UK
Categories : London, Portrait, UK
Rocky Mountain Glory
10 01 2009What’s more fabulous than a day of solid snowfall, followed by a glorious sunny morning of skiing on fresh powder snow?
Morning glory in the Rockies
Snow-dusted pines on the slopes
Mountain forest
Bordering the ski run
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Tags: mountains, photo, photographic study, Photography, pine trees, Rocky Mountains, skiing, snow, snowy trees, sunshine, USA, Vail, winter
Categories : Landscape, winter
Mock-antler lightfitting
10 01 2009This is a slightly odd piece of home furninshings (well, it is in my book anyway), but it is the lightfitting in the dining room of our holiday apartment in the Rocky Mountains … and it formed a good study for angles and the shapes that the shadows from it form.
Antler-light, macro view
Antler-light, wide view
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Tags: antler light, holidays, lightfitting, photo, photographic study, Photography, Rocky Mountains, USA, Vail
Categories : Uncategorized, winter
Winter sunshine
4 01 2009I took these photos to try to capture a glorious winter’s afternoon on Lac Leman
Lac Leman and the French Alps from Crans
Village church of Crans
Mossy wall, macro view
Mossy wall, wide view
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Tags: cold, Crans-pres-Celigny, Lac Leman, Lake Geneva, Landscape, mossy wall, mountains, old church, photo, Photography, sunshine, Swiss Alps, Switzerland, winter
Categories : Christmas, Crans-pres-Celigny, Europe, Landscape, Switzerland, winter
A preserved fairytale
4 01 2009As part of our Christmas wanderings, we made a day trip to the lovely village of Gruyeres when we were recently in Switzerland. Following are some of my favourite photos from the day.
Gruyeres village church and graveyard - sun-drenched and snow-dusted
View from the courtyard of the Chateau de Gruyeres
Through the window pane - Chateau de Gruyeres
The box hedges of the Chateau's formal garden, draped with snow
Swiss sunset, Gruyeres
Giger Museum, Gruyeres
As a post-script, I’m really not sure why there’s a Giger museum in the postcard-pretty hilltop medieval village of Gruyeres, but there is. So if you’re a mad-keen ‘Alien‘ or Giger fan, Gruyeres should be on your ‘to visit’ list. Me? I was more than happy just to explore the Chateau 
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Tags: chateau, Christmas, Europe, Giger Museum, Gruyeres, HR Giger, Landscape, medieval, mountains, photo, Photography, snow, Swiss Alps, Switzerland, winter
Categories : Christmas, Cityscape, Europe, Gruyeres, Switzerland, winter
