Lens-Artists Challenge #328: Winter

Lens-Artists Challenge #328: Winter

For the penultimate Lens-Artists Challenge of 2024 it was John’s turn to host the Challenge and his theme for the week is, appropriately enough, 'Winter' (https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/9042656/posts/5483077577). 'This week’s challenge', says John, 'is to share your photos of what winter means to you. For me, Winter used to mean cold frosty mornings, snow on the trees (if we were lucky, but more likely rain) and, of course, scarves, gloves, and all we need to keep us warm. 

But all that was before we moved to Portugal. Now there's no snow (well there is in the mountains but we don't go there), no frosty mornings, and although we sometimes need a coat, it's nothing like the cold we got in the UK. There is rain, though, plenty of that. Sometimes, though, the skies clear and we have lovely sunny, albeit chilly, days. Sometimes these days are suitable for just wearing T-shirts, but either I'm getting older or the weather is getting colder these are becoming less frequent. 

On the bright side it does enable me to get out and fake some snow-covered trees. How do I do that? Well here in Portugal, on a clear sunny day it's ideal for infrared photography (and let's face it, any sunny day is good for infrared photography, winter or summer). So the other day I headed out to Aveiro armed with the Canon Powershot A720, an 8MP digicam from 2007, and my trusty infrared filter. 

It wasn't a wholly successful day. Although it was lovely and clear, the sun was low in the sky and the light was a little weak. Also, being winter a lot of the trees have lost their leaves.  As a result, most of the sights I like to visit were not as 'wintery' as I would have liked. Despite that, there were some lovely infrared views in Aveiro where the ground was covered in 'snow'.

Naturally, in addition to the regular monochrome infrared photographs I had to make some digital aerochromes. In this instance the normal white of the vegetation is rendered as shades of red. Whuke not reminiscent of winter in any was, it just had to be done.

Next week, it's the Lens-Artists year-end challenge. Where we review our images o er the past year and present some that don't quite fit the various Challenge subjects of the year. The rules of rhis week are that the chosen photographs wer taken in 2024 and have not been used in any of the year's Challenges.

Themes for the Lens-Artists Challenge are posted each Saturday at 12:00 noon EST (which is 4pm, GMT) and anyone who wants to take part can post their images during the week. If you want to know more about the Challenge, details can be found here (https://photobyjohnbo.com/about-lens-artists/), and entries can be found on the WordPress reader using the tag 'Lens-Artists'.

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