It is winter now, but still not much in the way of snow. Temperature has dropped rapidly in the last few days and we did have a bit of snow falling for an hour or so yesterday but there is nothing left on the ground. It’s getting icy on the roads though and of course a couple of people did not observe this in the morning rush, I passed by two cars on the side of the road. None looked too worse beaten up though.

I shot the following on my lunch walk today and I liked the way it came out representing the oh so barren winter that we are having right now.

Nikon D300, Nikkor AF-S DX VR 16-85/3.5-5.6 G ED-IF

This was one of my first creative photos where I did lots of post-processing in order to get the effect I was looking for. The phot was taken a cold winter night, the structure you can see are the branches of a tree. The black mist is the smoke from me exhaling in front of the camera just as the photo was taken.

In post-process I have colorized it green then inverted the dark areas for the bright ones. The smoke and branches are therefore brightly lit by the flash in the original picture but turned dark in post-process. (more…)