GGW'S PICTURE THIS PHOTO CONTEST: WINTER LIGHT

Once again Gardening Gone Wild is hosting their Picture This Photo Contest and I have to say that the timing of this one wasn't ideal for me since February in CT was grey and didn't really lend itself to the theme for this month's contest: Winter Light.  I remind you that along the shoreline in southern CT we tend to get a lot of snow that melts the next day and most days my garden is brown and drab at best.  We had a good amount of snow over the past few weeks, but the sun just didn't want to come out. 

I tried a few times for interesting photos, but didn't love any of the results (pardon the smaller than normal image size, but we're "borrowing" wifi and the normal size was taking forever to upload):

And then during a snow storm:

I like this photo of the trees on the west side of the house.  If there was any sunlight it would have been coming from the right at this time of day:

And manipulating this one of the hydrangea yielded interesting results, but not worthy of entry into the contest:

 
 
The following morning the sun came out for about 20 minutes (no lie) and I immediately grabbed my camera, slipped my feet into tall boots, pulled my coat over my PJs, and ran outside.  I got a few nice shots of interesting shapes in the snow, but after much debate this is my entry into the GGW Picture This Photo contest:

 

I love the cotton fluff quality of the snow in the tree above my head with the sun coming through in spots against the blue, blue sky.  It's not a perfect photo, some of the branches could be in better focus, but I like it.  I hope you and the judge do too!

Comments

[Kylee from Our Little Acre]

Heather, ALL of these photos are beautiful! But I love the one you chose. Those do look like puffy cotton balls! I love when it does that. And look at that blue sky! Beautiful. Best of luck to you in the contest!

[jodi (bloomingwriter)]

I too love the one you chose, Heather, the perfect blue sky sets off the fluffy white snow splendidly. You must have spent hours arranging the snow just right on the branches. :-) Best of luck to you!

[Heather's Garden]

Kylee -- Thanks so much. It's an interesting group of photos this month. Seems like more garden bloggers and fewer photographers. I love your entry!

Jodi -- Merci (trying not to start every commnent with thanks). It was really a lucky shot. A gust of wind came shortly thereafter and about half the snow disappeared.

[Jan (Thanks For Today)]

Heather, it is a lovely photo!

[mummer]

At first glance (didn't have my glasses on) I thought you had found an apple tree in bloom.
Very nice photo - hope the judges look though my eyes too.

[Garden Junkie]

February is such a dreary month that it's nice to see a photo with clear, vivid blue sky. Your other photos capture the 'feel' of February (at least this February!) here in southern CT but I like the blue sky one best :-)

[Heather's Garden]

Jan -- Thanks much and I wouldn't worry about being disqualified, 4 minutes seems reasonable to me.

Mom -- You're funny. An apple tree in bloom in February!

Garden Junkie -- Dreary is exactly the right word for February in southern CT this year. I think I like the blue sky photo the best myself because I still only half believe I saw blue sky that day! Thankfully it's a lot nicer this week down here in FL.

[teresa]

Great pics. I like the one you chose. such a wonderful blue sky. It must be so weird to have so much snow. I hope your plants didn't get ruined.
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[Heather's Garden]

Teresa -- I actually don't know if we still have that much snow. VPH and I headed south on Thursday morning. It could have melted since then, but I do hear that another winter storm is about to hit the northeast this Thursday. I'm glad we ran away to Florida!

[Sue]

Came in from GGW to say congratulations. it's a superb photo.

[Heather's Garden]

Sue -- Thanks so much, you made me blush.