No more swimming Photo

Photographer’s Note

November 14th last year, the first snow had just fallen. A wet soft blanket that will be gone again in a few days. Smaller watersurfaces have a first layer of ice too, this lake is just a pond used by the kids to cool of in the summer. The sun deck is built on two old foundation for a power line pylon that has been demolished, I guess it would have been to expensive to build this deck without a free of charge foundation.

This was taken in the last light of a very overcasted autumn day, or is it a winter day? I have found by living in different parts of our long country that "autumn" and "spring" does not mean the same in the North as in the South. For someone from the South spring means warm sun and tulips but in the North the sound of water dripping from the melting snow on the roof is enough to make it spring.

As it was dusk and grey weather I tried to keep it soft in PP too, not making the snow perfectly white.

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jmdaoudal (82) 2004-10-30 5:33

Beautiful BW and very interesting subject. Ice is coming soon in this country.
Compliments
Jean Michel

khmelins (960) 2004-10-30 12:03

Hi Ebbe!

Soft it is! At least part of it :) I feel two different atmospheres in your picture, separated by the pond limits. A crispy, very bright snow and the surface of the pond, a blanket as you describe. And they don't mix, although the sun deck in the middle of the pond.
I like it very much.

regards,
anton

robiuk (10763) 2004-10-30 17:29

Thank goodness you posted this one. At the moment my heating system at home is on maximum and it feels hot like in sauna - this comes as a real refreshment! ;-D
Nice tones to your almost melancholic b/w capture.
I like this little 'patch' underneath the sun deck, that it hadn't been crystalised yet so we can see a reflection of the upper part in it.

rcastro (164) 2005-12-21 12:16