About the blue - I've been trying all winter to take an evening shot of the snow and capture the blue of night fall. In Prague the city lights turn everything yellow and I thought that I'd need a filter to find my blue. But no, all I needed to do was drive south to the border and take a walk in the countryside as the sun faded. A friend of mine (also a camera buff) walked with me and we decided that taking a walk in the country wasn't just good for pictures. I'm glad I live in the city but I love being able to get out into forests and fields when we can.
These pictures are all taken in the south of Bohemia, just below Cesky Krumlov and a few kilometers from the Austrian border. We stayed in a little lake-side pension there and spent the weekend cross-country skiing and visiting Cesky Krumlov in the snow. More pictures tomorrow!
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Wow Julia - I adore the warmth of the lit rooms against the cold blue of the snow
Thanks Mary! I love that picture too, and I know I'm such a nerd, but I have actually been trying to figure out how to capture that contrast since last year. When I finished downloading all my trip pictures yesterday, I was so happy to see those I think I skipped in my chair ;-).
I love these. We have had a lot of the same blue here, and I love how the windows glow against it.
I've read novels set in your neck of the planet and I imagine that is looks like this. Your photos are so beautiful and I'm glad to see I guessed right!
Oh, so lovely and amazingly brilliant that blue and the warm golden glow from the windows! Brings back memories of early years lived in winter climes. Great job capturing these, Julia!
Such beautiful photos!! I can't wait to see more!
And there I am always trying to get away from the inherent blue in snow photos... Hoping for more snow photos with you this year!
Oh, I love that row of fence posts in the very first one!
There must be some chromatic relationship between the blue and the yellow/orange that causes the latter to become intensified. Perhaps it's the visual equivalent of a triad. Whatever it is, it is (or was) a great reassurance to me as a skier. As night fell the blue seeped into the background, blotting out the tawdry posters, the special offer signs and the rest of the ski-station trash, providing a frame for those warmly lit windows and signalling - hospitality! Proof that I'd survived another day on the pistes. The Germans might well call it gemütlich.
Oh ja! Quite gemütlich indeed!
Orange and blue are opposites on the color wheel, so I think you nailed that one BB!
Sounds like a fun vacation. Love the photos! The glow from the windows look so inviting.
What beautiful snow pictures. X country skiing sounds very appealing.
X country skiing is a more fun than I ever imagined. Several of our friends told us it was just hard work and not a lot of payoff, but I think it is just as fun as roller blading and about the same amount of effort.
Tomorrow never comes!
I love these.
Just popping by to say hello. I was thinking of you today, your sketch of C is hanging near my desk so I think of you quite often!
E xxxx
If this were Britain this could be an all-purpose post. We had heavy snow yet again two days ago, mainly in Scotland, and a school bus setting off for a trip to a theme park (!) went off the road and one of the kids was sadly killed.
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