Save the Last Snow For Me
Today we finally received the first and probably the last real package of snow for the season. I have to say it - I'm downright disappointed with such a snow-deprived winter, it makes shorter days and the cold much harder to bear and justify. In recent years the snowfall has been in steady decline and has pretty much hit a new low in this winter.
That is why I've decided to document the snow a bit before it vanishes for good... who knows, next year might be even worse. The pictures posted here therefore have a predominantly archival role.
The photos went through some minor adjustments in Photoshop but are otherwise fresh from the morning photo session around the house.
A Koyaanisqatsi inspired photo... If you haven't watched or even heard about this film, I highly recommend it - it has a cult status and really is worth watching. *Koyaanisqatsi music playing in the background*
It's not that there wouldn't be enough snow available at higher altitudes (there was plenty of it in the mountains), the thing is that there is something incredibly calming and satisfying about the white coating covering our civilization's greatest achievements, softening the edges of natural and unnatural surroundings alike and causing everything to come to a standstill, incapacitating and silencing it at least for a short while.
Of course, I better just come out and say it: I love snow... the more snow the better. I sometimes wonder why and usually come to a conclusion that it has roots in either genetics, my childhood experience or both. Whatever the case may be, watching snowflakes fall from an overcast sky always was one of my favorite hobbies... secretly wishing that a sudden blizzard would conjure up insane amounts of snow, burying the ground under meters and meters of it.
Aaaaahhhhhh....
That is why I've decided to document the snow a bit before it vanishes for good... who knows, next year might be even worse. The pictures posted here therefore have a predominantly archival role.
The photos went through some minor adjustments in Photoshop but are otherwise fresh from the morning photo session around the house.
A Koyaanisqatsi inspired photo... If you haven't watched or even heard about this film, I highly recommend it - it has a cult status and really is worth watching. *Koyaanisqatsi music playing in the background*
It's not that there wouldn't be enough snow available at higher altitudes (there was plenty of it in the mountains), the thing is that there is something incredibly calming and satisfying about the white coating covering our civilization's greatest achievements, softening the edges of natural and unnatural surroundings alike and causing everything to come to a standstill, incapacitating and silencing it at least for a short while.
Of course, I better just come out and say it: I love snow... the more snow the better. I sometimes wonder why and usually come to a conclusion that it has roots in either genetics, my childhood experience or both. Whatever the case may be, watching snowflakes fall from an overcast sky always was one of my favorite hobbies... secretly wishing that a sudden blizzard would conjure up insane amounts of snow, burying the ground under meters and meters of it.
Aaaaahhhhhh....
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