In Camera...Perfect Winter Day

Coronation Park, Crosby. Early morning mist over frost covered fields lends atmosphere to this shot of the rays of light from the rising sun

Last Saturday was a rare perfect winter day for atmospheric photography. The temperature did not rise much above freezing point all day but the absence of wind made it feel warmer. A light mist hovered across the cold ground all day and there was a radiant golden glow of light just after sunrise on this very cold and frosty morning as the sun slowly pierced the fog, it's light forming rays of light and shadow spreading through the hazy air.

Coronation Park, Crosby, just after sunrise

Beech Trees, Alexandra Park, Crosby

Beech Trees, Alexandra Park, Crosby

 The two images above show how shooting into the light can make such a difference to the picture. They are the same trees in both pictures.

Frost covered ground, Alexandra Park, Crosby

In the afternoon the back lanes near Little Crosby are full of low lying mist across the still frosty fields and the sun is setting as I drive through. The whole day is very reminiscent of Christmas with smoke rising through the still cold air, the roofs and ground white with frost and that lovely soft pink glow from a winter sunset which depend to a warm orange afterglow as the earth rotates into darkness.

Late afternoon in the fields near Little Crosby

The afterglow on a fine winter evening across the fields near Little Crosby

Down on Crosby beach, a bank of fog lies out to sea, the sky above filled with the afterglow of sunset. The iron men fade into the distance.

The Mile Marker on Crosby Beach looms out of the fog on this cold winter day

In Camera ... Fiery Dawn Sky

A bitterly cold icy morning, the local park covered with frost, the sky ablaze with colour as the sun rose. A moment of nature that has to be captured quickly, five minutes later the colour had gone from the sky as the sun appeared above the horizon.