I was beginning to think it would never snow like it did when I was a kid - you know, enough to close your school and deep enough to build a snowman in - and then 2009 saw the return of some decent wintry weather.
It always makes me laugh how the most mundane things suddenly get photographed because they have a few inches of snow on them. Benches for example. Surely everyone at some point has taken a photograph of a bench covered in snow.
I was up in Shropshire staying with family, and the beautiful countryside a short walk away made it impossible not to grab my camera, pull on some fingerless gloves and go out and explore. It was the first time I had ventured out alone with a camera, and it's amazing how much more you take in when you aren't half focused on people around you.
Even graffiti on the railway bridge demanded my attention - normally it's just background noise.
As I walked off the bridge, I was totally smitten by the frost on leaves by the side of the railway. I took this shot, which has astonished me with its popularity on flickr - 220+ favourites and increasing daily!
I would love to show you the rest of the beautiful photographs I had taken that day... but I had a computer malfunction which resulted in the loss of all the other photographs I had taken that day. Including the bench photograph.
Frustration.
Even more annoyingly there was a thaw overnight, and I never got to retake the bench I had found, when it was all snowy and abandoned.
Not quite as atmospheric, but just as abandoned - here is my bench.
The thaw brought about some other photo opportunities though :
Birmingham provided more frosty scenes later that January, so I decided to take some photographs of someone elses garden:
I love the texture frost gives when you convert a photograph to black and white!
my flickr
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