winter

Tree on a Hill /  by Todd Henson

A Sequence of Snowscapes /  by Todd Henson

I’ve always been fascinated by a certain type of landscape photograph, one whose subject is simple enough and without anything recognizable that would provide a reference, such that you can’t immediately tell if what you’re seeing is something far away or very close up. Perhaps you’ve seen some of these? Examples are photographs of sand dunes viewed from planes flying overhead.

Here I present another set of examples, this time of snow and the ridges and patterns shaped by the wind. But in this case each of these photos are closeups. Not macro, but a small area of space, where I leaned over the snow and photographed from an angle to let the mid-afternoon sunlight create the shadows that accent the patterns.

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I spent several minutes exploring this area, right at a corner along a road on Blandy Experimental Farm. I bent over at different angles, got lower, higher, tried tilting the camera this way and that. At one point my focus attracted the attention of someone who works at the location. We had a nice conversation about the location and photography before I went back to creating images.

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Looking at Layers in the Landscape /  by Todd Henson

Looking at layers in a landscape, the wider view

I was walking through the bamboo grove at Blandy Experimental Farm, actually following the tracks of a rabbit in the snow. When I lifted my head I saw I was exiting the grove and that just beyond was a snow-covered field, one that appeared to have been plowed after whatever crop is grown there was harvested. And beyond that was a narrow line of trees with another field beyond, but with enough plant life to give it a tan color instead of the white snow of the foreground field. And beyond all this was another line of trees, then the mountains with a blue-cast from the sky, and finally the blue sky, itself.

Looking at layers in the landscape

All this captured my attention and I realized it was because of the layers of the scene. I like that each layer introduced another color or a new shade of an existing color, and how the layers were spread out over the distance. I can’t claim anything special about these photographs, but perhaps you’ll find the layers as interesting as I did.

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