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Gray Winter Woods

            "In the Bleak Midwinter" is a Christmas carol based on a poem by the English poet Christina Rossetti and set to music by Gustav Holst around the turn of the 20th Century. It was the first thing I thought of when I saw this image in my catalog from January, a year ago. 

I went searching for something appropriate to the winter's scene that is outside my evening's window: that of a mild snowstorm, piling up fine powdery snow into rifts and drifts that will shift through the night. I almost went out to grab some images of that snowfall, but my recovering knee gave me pause and sent me searching. 

I almost converted this to black and white, but the starkness and bleakness of the scene comes out stronger with that hint of color that is there in the photograph. 

It was a gray day, with a skim of ice still on the stream. The promise of Spring seems far off.

Taken on: January 22, 2013

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Matt Penning

Penning Photography

MattPenning.com

Springfield, Illinois

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Camera: Pentax K-5, f/7.1, 1/30 sec, 10mm (=15mm), ISO 250 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Pentax K-5
Aperture:	f/7.1
Exposure Time:	0.033 sec (1/30)
Focal Length:	10mm (35mm equivalent: 15mm)
ISO:	250
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto bracket
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.3 (Windows)
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