Winter’s invitation
So winter has arrived.
I really like snow, especially the first one. Actually, we already had our first snow. But this is not about snow. It is about the mud that’s left over from the snow. And about the gray November weather so many people talk and complain about. December is a bright month, with lots of lights and anticipation of the holidays. But then, gray and less pleasurable months follow: January and February.
An observation about myself: I don’t like taking photos on cloudy days. And we will have plenty of cloudy days, or put in other words: only few days with warm light, light that invites one to go outside and to take photos. At least that’s how I feel.
I could say to myself: Let’s go out of the comfort zone and still find and see the motifs. There are for sure plenty!
But I tend to say: It’s fine. Stay indoors. You still have a lot of photos that you haven’t shown yet because life happened and you wanted to be outside.
There are photos from the whole year – from many years!- from everyday life. Shot digitally, which I would like to edit and show here subsequently. I also have a lot of analogue photos that I want to show as well.
For me, most of the time photography means being behind the lens and capturing the motif. I barely take any time to curate the photos. Or get to the editing phase. Eventually, photography is also that and everything else that happens before and after the shutter is released. Including looking through photos, sort them and bring together what might belong together eventually.
Thus, this winter I plan to take time for the photos I’ve already taken. If winter is so kind to invite me to stay inside, then I’ll gratefully accept this invitation.
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