The first three pictures demonstrate how much a landscape gains in beauty, when branches are being used for framing and are lending support to a given scenery. The last picture is showing the sun piercing through a dense forest with its light being scattered and refracted by snow and ice in the branches. Enjoy.
On our walk along the beach I noticed that the lake level had not dropped since the last snowfall. So the edge of the lakeshore and the snow were close together. That was a great opportunity for Mother nature to form icicles with each wave spilling over the rocks. That immediately gave me the theme for today’s photo presentation. Enjoy!
Sleeping Beauty
Long-nosed Icicles
Multicoloured Stones
Ice Fingers
Miniature Stalactites
My wife enjoying the sunshine
Even a dead leaf can be very beautiful.
Rough stairway to heaven
Nature’s very own sculptures
Glorious glow at the end of the day
Today’s theme helped me find objects on this chilly winter day, which I would have missed to capture with my camera. I believe I mentioned it before, how important it is to have a theme in your mind before going out to take pictures. It gives you the focus needed to see things, which you would otherwise miss. In the following images the focus was on the many ways Nature expresses itself in curves and undulations. Enjoy.
On one of our recent walks along the shoreline of the Arrow Lake my wife and I came across an old trunk of a tree that had been cut down more than 50 years ago. That mighty tree together with thousands of others had to go in order to clear the area for the flooding of the valley. It was a sad time for the many people, who were expropriated and driven off their land by this gigantic BC Hydro project. The venerable old tree trunk I am presenting here today has not lost its beauty over so many years and I decided to devote the entire post to the natural splendour of its individual parts. Enjoy.
Well Rooted and Anchored to Last Hundreds of Years
Its Centre Root Washed Free by the Changing Lake Level
Elegantly Shaped Lateral Roots
Its Centre Providing a Frame for a View
Artistic Lines Leading to the Top
The lake level is dropping to make room for the annual spring run-off. This means that a strip of shoreline was without snow. My wife and I took this as an invitation for a walk on the stony beach section at our favourite place, which never fails to charge up our internal batteries. A strong wind earlier in the morning had whipped up considerable surf action. I captured the waves by lying on my belly very much to the amusement to my wife. Enjoy.
The Peter and Gertrud Klopp Family 