From Denny: Here I am in the middle of a Spring pollen blizzard with 85 degree weather posting winter snow and ice photography. Uh, the rest of the nation may not be south Louisiana like where I live. In fact, here it is late March and parts of America are still experiencing snow storms and icy driving conditions. The month of March this year of 2011 refuses to go out like a lamb but rather prefers to be a drama queen and exit like a lion!
Just think, you can revisit this post come July when the weather is sweltering and you are fondly remembering cold weather as something wonderful. Enjoy my visual vacation where I rest from writing by combing through Flickr looking for interesting photos to fit a theme. You get to see some new photography talent and lovely images along the way. I try to feature and promote photographers, both amateur and professional, from all over the world. I'm an equal opportunity photo junkie...
if winter ends! photo by Felipe Baenninger @ flickr from Brazil - those wintry winds
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photografy / Felipe Baenninger
stylist / Rafael Menezes
beauty / Kaue (Molinos Trein)
model / Taila (Now Models)
Winterworld photo by Stephi 2006 @ flickr from Germany - where the sky is as snowy as the land!
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Winter Miscanthus photo by M. Rehemtulla for QUOI Media Group from Canada - reminds me of seaweed only it's a winter version
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earth stood hard as iron photo by angies @ flickr from Southampton, UK - a wonderful moody wintry landscape where the snow and the fog merge
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once upon a time photo by Stephi 2006 @ flickr from Germany - Brrr... this ice is so cold you could reach out and touch it
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frostberries photo by angies @ flickr, from Southampton, UK - what a delightful capture of a frozen moment in time.
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looking back photo by gerrybuckel @ flickr, from Michigan, USA - makes you wonder what is going on the mind of that deer, doesn't it? Probably something like, "Got chocolate with a chaser of milk?"
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Frozen ground photo by gerrybuckel @ flickr, from Michigan, USA - even the opossum is surprised he is still awake. :)
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The Starling photo by ~Shanth @ flickr, from Illinois, USA - the back lighting increases the drama of the day
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The Starling poem
"'I can't get out', said the starling."
Sterne's 'Sentimental Journey.'
Forever the impenetrable wall
Of self confines my poor rebellious soul,
I never see the towering white clouds roll
Before a sturdy wind, save through the small
Barred window of my jail. I live a thrall
With all my outer life a clipped, square hole,
Rectangular; a fraction of a scroll
Unwound and winding like a worsted ball.
My thoughts are grown uneager and depressed
Through being always mine, my fancy's wings
Are moulted and the feathers blown away.
I weary for desires never guessed,
For alien passions, strange imaginings,
To be some other person for a day.
- Amy Lowell, The Starling
Eastern Gray Squirrel photo by ~Shanth @ flickr, from Illinois, USA - wonderful close up portrait
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Crossing the log at Commonwealth Creek photo by cruiznbye @ flickr, from USA - at least he didn't fall in the freezing water and lived to post the photo! :)
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Zoom In Motion photo by The Cleveland Kid @ flickr, from Cleveland, Ohio, USA - I like this fast company perspective.
Brite Winter Festival 2010 at Cleveland's Hart Crane Memorial Park
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Young redbelly woodpecker photo by gerrybuckel @ flickr from Michigan, USA
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Snow falling in Michigan on the Red Barn photo by gerrybuckel @ flickr from Michigan, USA - awesome bright red against the blizzard of snow falling.
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Kinda tastes like spaghetti photo by gerrybuckel @ flickr from Michigan, USA - this red cardinal has the expression of like a "who are you looking at any how?" photo
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Point Au Braux lighthouse photo by gerrybuckel @ flickr from Michigan, USA
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Sitting pretty cold photo by gerrybuckel @ flickr from Michigan, USA
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Red berries encased in ice photo by gerrybuckel @ flickr from Michigan, USA
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Trinity Tree Sentinels photo by gerrybuckel @ flickr from Michigan, USA
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Abominable Snow Dawg photo by Christmas w/a K @ flickr - OK, this little guy is irrestible!
From the photographer: "Snow is like crack for Belle - she will roll, eat, jump, lay in it as long as she can. Major frolicking has happened all week for her. After this snowfest, I started putting snow on her head when we'd go out - she loved it and would then start her crazy snow plow moves and rolling and eating it. Yay - Belle is in the top 20 photo results when searching "snow" on flickr! Dec 17, 2010."
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Snow covered farmland photo by gerrybuckel @ flickr from Michigan, USA - OK, so I love bucolic smothered in the snow - beautiful!
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