Snow season inbound

Autumn is most certainly heading our way, the trees are still green and there is very little change in colour, but the signs are there. Whilst most landscape photographers love Autumn, I do too, but for very different reasons. For me, it signifies one thing….Snow season is coming.

Autumn is always the quickest of the seasons, with its rusty hues fleetingly covering the landscape for a week or so. Winter is different, it is an unknown, well will it come, there is rarely any advance notice, little or a lot. Will it stick around, where will it lie? All of these unknowns, make it for me, the most glorious of seasons.
It is possible, although unlikely that the winter will be wet in the Bannau Brycheioniog, it nearly always is, but in amongst winters months there are always those few weeks of cold, ice and beautiful mornings, when you awake to the crisp, clean landscape of eira. {snow in welsh}
Herbert Ponting a photography ‘hero’ of mine, wrote a lot about snow in his book ‘Great White South’. I love his descriptions of the cold. “A great bastion of ice” describes one of his photographs from the Scott expedition. Another photographic inspiration of mine is the great US explorer and photograher Bradford Washburn, one of the real pioneers of arial photography.
Both are huge influences in my photography and my passion of both go a long way to explaining my obsession with all things winter.