Spring is just around the corner

Posted by Damon Schreiber (Toronto, Canada) on 26 January 2009 in Plant & Nature and Portfolio.

But I'm on my knees, snapping photos in the snow. This is looking across the frozen channel to Toronto's island airport.

[foot of Bathurst, Toronto]

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Comments (23)

k@ from Paris, France

Courage is one of the great quality for a photographer : great DOF and delicate lil'promesses you caught here ! Have a nice week, Damon*

26 Jan 2009 7:26am

zahai from Berlin, Germany

should your knees have gotten wet for this shot, it was well worth it. Beautiful scenery and detail, love the glistening of the snow.

26 Jan 2009 9:31am

catchlight from United Kingdom

Just gorgeous Damon.

26 Jan 2009 10:09am

irudiak from Bilbo, Spain

love your photos !

26 Jan 2009 11:46am

rooftop from United States

I like this vertical, wintry image, well worth your cold knees.

26 Jan 2009 1:43pm

Daryl from Amagasaki, Japan

Excellent perspective, beautiful job.

26 Jan 2009 1:49pm

António Pires from Lisbon, Portugal

It seems a rather huge corner, though.

26 Jan 2009 2:20pm

Col from Winnipeg, Canada

I feel that spring is still a long ways off from here in our Canadian prairies. + sigh+ It already has been a long cold one. For me, your photo does two things. It captures the cold ...one can almost feel it. But at the same time we see the remnants of last fall, grassy stems clutching seeds that we know will drop and will grow in the warmer days to come.

26 Jan 2009 3:05pm

@Col: Thanks so much for your thoughtful comment, Col! In truth, spring is a long way off ... but in my mind I remember my grandfather, a farmer, saying those words as winter was just getting started. I often repeat it to myself to get through this cold season.

WABIKOJA from Shiga, Japan

Thin plants and snow...Nice composition!

26 Jan 2009 3:21pm

Eleftheria from Athens, Greece

Beautiful!

26 Jan 2009 6:10pm

alex centrella from California, United States

striking image !

26 Jan 2009 6:49pm

Ana Lúcia from Leiria, Portugal

Really a nice moment, in this quiet and warm light!

26 Jan 2009 7:02pm

Darin from Seattle, United States

I wish it were true... Nice image, though.

26 Jan 2009 8:18pm

tt from dublin, Ireland

you have a good eye!

26 Jan 2009 8:37pm

Pixim from Nice, France

I like much, these oppositions between these some branches and the city at the bottom, the chain on the side so strong in front of the thinness of the stems, the so brilliant light of the first-plan compared to a light packed on the background. A perfect success thanks to DoF employed and with your composition Bravo ;)

26 Jan 2009 9:10pm

Xavi Heredia from Badalona (almost Barcelona), Spain

Mmmm... maybe it's actually two corners far ;-)

26 Jan 2009 10:46pm

shallowregret from Kongsberg, Norway

afraid were only half way there :-)

26 Jan 2009 11:07pm

Richard_Irwin from Belper, United Kingdom

Nice one, I hope spring gets to you soon. Over here, we have some winter flowers out already, and the crocuses and snowdrops are showing a couple of inches of green shoots now in the ground, even a few daffodil shoots poking up.

26 Jan 2009 11:34pm

Twelvebit from Victoria, United States

I just had that book from the library not too long ago. I can't say I'm looking forward to spring though, because around here that means daylight savings time, and 100 degree days with 100% humidity are just around the corner.

26 Jan 2009 11:52pm