Getting ready for the cold and dark winter :) moody photo with a natural window light. Kid photos looks better when they are happy and energetic mood but todays light gave to create this one. Capture the light. Explore the interestingness of light. NOTICE.

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Heini.... my 2nd choice of beer. I think Coronas are much better tasting ((lol))

A cold morning and a layer of frost mist covering Torgers Island and the sea. Some birds are seeking cover in the mist.

Detras de la Pampilla de Coquimbo (Chile) se encuentra este tipo de paisaje, con fuertes olas, nubes por todos lados, un poco de frio y por sobretodo hermoso!

Cold, cold water surrounds me now

And all I've got is your hand

Lord, can you hear me now?

Lord, can you hear me now?

Lord, can you hear me now?

Or am I lost?

Love one's daughter

Allow me that

And I can't let go of your hand

Lord, can you hear me now?

Lord, can you hear me now?

Lord, can you hear me now?

Or am I lost?

Cold, cold water surrounds me now

And all I've got is your hand

Lord, can you hear me now?

Lord, can you hear me now?

Lord, can you hear me now?

Or am I lost?

Listen, it's beautiful - www.youtube.com/watch?v=9or_1Zg-WVQ

Cold Morning

B 474, Dülmen, Germany

Cold Spring Harbor, NY

The cold blood... well... it was my own blood to be cold... because of the freezing air ! :)

Shot close to home just around the corner...

A sangue freddo :)

Il sangue freddo.. beh... era il mio... a causa dell'aria gelida ! :)

Foto scattata vicino casa, praticamente dietro l'angolo...

A pair of Short-Eared Owls on ice covered vegetation.

New Hampshire

Oak scrub on Grand Mesa, Colorado, plastered with snow on a sub zero day

Happy Sliders Sunday!

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I think this is the last of this series.

Thanks for all your wonderful comments. Now I will let her come in and warm up for spring ;-)

Thanksgiving in Boston, MA

Full b&w didn't work, but the original colors also didn't do much for the shot, so this one became another that I tweaked into the blue tones to get that wintry feeling.

We have over minus 20C here now

Brrrrrrr

Hi you all... winter returns with a cold, cold... too much cold wind in this days :o(

fortunately the sun is out and not snow yet...

hope you have a fantastic week!!!

too much work here... as always, hope I can see you after tuesday, (and on saturday... you will know why!!!)

this is from the serie of the shot on the comment box and as I say you that time... don't worry the hat is synthetic!!!

Wilson Dam

Took this a little while ago down on Kirk Michael shore. It was a chilly evening with a cold wind, hence the ripples on the water in the pool.

Just minor tweaking from raw to bring out the colours a little.

A cute Yellow-Crowned Sparrow trying to stay warm this cold morning.

only for the realest of cookies

I first discovered this abandoned house about six or seven years ago. At that time, the small barn or garage in the back was still standing, albeit leaning heavily. The rusty old tractors in the front yard are now gone and I'm very sorry that I didn't take more pictures of them. I'm amazed this house is still standing. The farmland around it has expanded and I'm fairly certain that it won't be here much longer.

The water vapor from the warm kitchen condensates and freezes on the cold storm door.

Riete @ Prague

The coldest nights are sometimes the nights that you have to get out and shoot

Clambering up the Cold Mountain path,

The Cold Mountain trail goes on and on:

The long gorge choked with scree and boulders,

The wide creek, the mist-blurred grass.

The moss is slippery, though there's been no rain.

The pine sings, but there's no wind.

Who can leap the world's ties

And sit with me among the white clouds.

Han-shan

Cold Mountain Poems

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanshan_(poet)

Ladakh, India on a pass some 5000 m above sea level ...

feeling groovy ...

The colours really were like this. No special effects ;-)

The red colour might be some kinf of algae:

Watermelon snow, also called snow algae, pink snow, red snow, or blood snow, is Chlamydomonas nivalis, a species of green algae containing a secondary red carotenoid pigment (astaxanthin) in addition to chlorophyll. Unlike most species of fresh-water algae, it is cryophilic (cold-loving) and thrives in freezing water.[1] Its specific epithet, nivalis, is from Latin and refers to snow.

This type of snow is common during the summer in alpine and coastal polar regions worldwide, such as the Sierra Nevada of California. Here, at altitudes of 10,000 to 12,000 feet (3,000–3,600 m), the temperature is cold throughout the year, and so the snow has lingered from winter storms. Compressing the snow by stepping on it or making snowballs leaves it looking red. Walking on watermelon snow often results in getting bright red soles and pinkish pant cuffs. (source: Wikipedia)

Or maybe it has something to to with iron oxide, like at the Blood Falls:

Blood Falls

This eerie and mysterious blood-red waterfall is located in remote Antarctica. The red color is partially the result of saltwater tainted with iron oxide, but the real mystery of these falls is what lives in the water. Water samples contain almost no oxygen, but at least 17 different types of alien-like microbes have been identified slithering around in the blood-like water. Scientists surmise that they survive via a metabolic process never observed in nature that utilizes sulfate as a respiratory catalyst with ferric ions, metabolizing trace levels of ancient organic matter trapped underneath Antarctica's vast glaciers. (source: www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/photos/the... )

I've even heard stories about red desert dust..

Does anyone know?

A cold front moves over Sydney, seen here at Manly Dam.

Well cold everything really, feet, bums and tums. A frozen Island Pool at Dunham Park yesterday morning.

Aegina. Greece