Thursday, February 10, 2011

You Capture | Cold

I’ve been wanting to participate in You Capture at I Should Be Folding Laundry for awhile. I’ve needed something to get me taking pictures, because I haven’t been picking up my camera the last several.  I was disappointed last week when I saw that the topic was “cold”.

Here in the northwest, we’ve been having an unseasonably warm January.  Seriously – it’s been heavenly.  No wind, no rain and temps in the mid-upper 50’s (tomorrow the wind will blow and the rain will start just because of that sentence) so I wasn’t sure I would get anything cold to take a picture of.

Then this morning, when the kids headed out the door to school it was below freezing.  And there was signs of winter – fog hanging over the neighborhood, frost on the grass, bushes and roof tops.  Gray skies above the fog.  It just looked like winter, and cold. 

So I put on my husband’s flip flops, grabbed the camera and headed out. Here are a couple shots I got:

02 10 11_4588crop 02 10 11_4589-copyI’m particularly excited about the bottom one because I used the manual mode.

Stay warm this week!

7 comments:

Jennifer said...

I like those! It's so cool, with the ice crystals

Rocio Esmeralda said...

lovely shots!

Janelle said...

I like both!

Darilyn said...

Those are beautiful! Great job!

Tonya said...

My favorite part of this story is that you put your hubby flip flops on to tromp outside in the freezing weather! I do the same thing when it's time to take my little one to the bus stop. Somehow they're just more convenient than finiding my own shoes:)

Lovely shots, by the way! The frost on them looks way cool.

Julie said...

I like them both and love the bottom. It's fun to see the photos you take. You'll laugh - I realized this week when I was trying to shoot in manual that I don't even know how to change the f stop on my camera. I've got to figure that out pronto.

troutdalite said...

love the frost and the flipflops. Brrrrr!