It is very cold these days and the best thing about it is that winter looks like magic. There are diamonds everywere, and sparkling ice crystals. But the daylight doesn’t last long and I have other things to do. Otherwise I would be outside with my camera much more. So here is just a few, and a few more in my snow gallery. By the way, the latest WP changes made it difficult to find the New Post-button, but I made it.
Wonderful! It is cold here, too, in Southern Arizona. We are not used to it. My pipes froze and one broke yesterday! We don’t have the beauty of the ice and snow (for which I think I am thankful).
Sorry to hear about your pipes. Happened to me too, two years ago. Had to get water from my neighbours for 3 months, to wait for the ground to defreeze.. The problem with this beauty is that it happenes only when it is really cold (10-20 below zero, or more).
Brrr…just how cold is it in your neck of the woods?! Beautiful photos!
It has been 10-15 in daytime, and 14-18 at nights for the last weeks, all below zero, don’t know how long it will last.. Thanks, Caribous.
I take it that’s in farenheit?!! BRRRRR!!!!!
Que l’hiver est beau !!! j’adore
Val
Oui, l’hiver est tres beau.. Merci beaucoup, Lancoliebleue.
Beautiful winter photos, Bente…even if it is incredibly cold….
Thanks, Seekratz, and I guess you are used to it.
You’re welcome, Bente…and yes…I’m kinda used to it.
Oh dear Bente, I agree with you when I see your amazing photographs… You did a wonderul set. Thank you, love, nia
Thank you a lot dear, Nia. Have wonderful days.
Lovely. Very cold here too. (I’m in MN, US)
Thanks. There are a lot of cold places around these days it seems.
Beautiful images Bente. I love what we call hoar frost on the branches. – Suzan -
Thanks. Haven’t heard about hoar frost, but now I think I have learned a new expression.
Calgary is a normally dry climate. We see it when there is high humidity in the air, like a fog. The temperature gets cold, then the ice crystals deposit themselves as a coating on everything – particularly branches. It’s a lot thicker than an ordinary frost coating. Everything looks crispy and white and particularly beautiful against blue skies.
Fantastic winter pics.
Thanks, Meyer.
Bente, gorgeous. I love frost photos. There is something magical about winter, frost, and the cold…
Magical these days,and I must say, teribly cold. Thanks, Nancy.
Beautiful photos, Bente. It’s very cold here, too. I don’t want to be outdoors too much when it’s this cold.
I want to be outside more, but don’t have time to get dressed. It actually takes time to prepare..
Spectacular…I totally love how you can let us feel the freeze just like it is over our fingers just with this shiny images! I fell in love with your pics!
Feeling it on the fingers, I hope you took part in some of the magic. Thanks.
Cold – but: wonderfully ‘sugared’
Those snow-chrystals and the blue sky – that’s winter at its best.
I agree. That’s the good thing about this period.
Yeah, there is a winterwonderland just now, this morning: lots of snow, but still grey sky.
These are absolutely wonderful. Love your snow chrystals and the blue sky. So winter is really fun.
Ha en fin uke!
Kind of fun, when looking and photographing. Ha en flott uke du også!
Great focus and nice soft images (my frost shots always come out looking quite harsh).
I guess the light your place is different. You know in january the sun is barely above the horizon in midday around here. Makes the pictures more soft.
Fair comment!
Exquisite
Thanks, Wanderlust.
Beautiful and frozen images !! Very good golden and blue contrasts.
Glad you liked them, Carlos. Thanks.
Beautiful photos! It’s a rare day when the frost has formed its beautiful art work and the lighting is just perfect!
I agree, and actually it goes on and on. No warmer air to make it go away in sight.
Fabulous pictures Bente.
Thanks a lot, Chillbrook.
Lovely set, Bente. May i rub it in by telling you that here in southern Mexico it is too hot to do anything, even walk…?
Don’t mention it, Alessandro, you are forbidden!
My consolation I can enjoy your great series from the land of the sun in between.
Lovely shots, Bente!
Thanks a lot, Carissa.
The sparkling frost adds something special to the photos. So does the BLUE sky. I’ve almost forgotten what that is! We’ve had such a gray winter. Wonderful photos, Bente. I felt shivery and cold when I looked at them but they are beautiful.
My reward for enduring shivers, Anneli. And we usually have some grey or milkywhite days too inbetween, but long time no see.
I love the blue sky behind them!
Flotte frostbilder. Blir nesten kald bare av å se på dem.
Even though I now live in the Pacific Northwest, your photos remind me of the winter landscape in Minnesota where I spent several very cold years. Ice can be so dangerous but so beautiful as well.
That is certainly Magic
Verkligen vackra bilder Bente!
wonderful images, great sharpness and bokeh
Very beautiful photos !
Lovely photos!
And I thought it was cold here…
Never more!
Jota.
We are waiting for snow this night.
Your images are magic!
Stunning shots of the ice on nature.. Happy 2013
I love these photos! I will be in Helsinki in a few days for some delicious cold weather. It will completely different from the heatwave we are having here in Australia.
Very beautiful but oh so cold.
Really beautiful photos…
I jumped into your gallery, I love the one “kaldt_lierne.jpg”…
Wonderful gallery…
Amazingly beautiful,how cold are you when you are out taking these images,Do your feet feel as cold as the leaves and twigs?Just beautiful!!! Cheers callie
cold cold cold… perhaps, but blue blue blue & sun sun sun !!
Beautiful photos !
Lovely images, and yes, it does look cold, cold, cold……. hang in there, spring will soon be here.
It all looks so delicate. Beautiful, Bente.
Wonderful images, Bente. Really lovely.
Wonderful shots!
Bente, you’ve captured the magic of your home beautifully! As always.
Beautiful shot!!
Lovely set of photos. It looks downright cold, but great for some close-up images of the snow crystals.
In Spain, the weather is cold too those days; however, in Málaga where I live, we are doing a 8 ºC. I sorry for my english, it’s horrible. I am learning English. Thanks you for visited my blog. Greetings.
I really like this kind of photos, thanks!
Smukke billeder! It´s very cold in Denmark too, and the cold is told to last until march. A bit too long, I think.
Beautiful photos Bente, overhere in Holland it is cold min 5 graden, but not so cold as by you brrrrrr.
Frosted beauty.
Mágia, sí señor, en la naturaleza fría y en lo mostrado por la intuición del intento. ¡Conseguido! Felicidades.
Hasta ver. Saludos.
it is beautiful~
your album is wonderful! great
Fina vinterbilder, det som jag saknar här i Frankrike…
Extreme beauty
Love the pretty sparkles, even if they are oh so cold!
Bellissime foto, sono fantastiche!!
That is some serious coldness… here is Southern California people are freaking out because temperatures have hit 0-3C!! Here is Jimmy Kemmel making fun of it
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Beautiful frost! It is much colder there than here now.
These are such lovely captures… Fairy snow!!!
So beautiful! Just like art. Nature is amazing, thanks for posting!
OK… maybe my north Texas winter isn’t so bad after all!
Nicely done!
wow! your pics are so nice!
It’s very cold here too. We’re waiting for other snow today, again!
have a nice day
Stunningly beautiful Bente!
My initial impression – my VERY FIRST, mind – of the first photo was of Anna Karenina wrapped in her furs. The visual can do such marvelous things to the imagination!
Winter is a so beautiful season … here in Paris people don’t like snow. Yes, behind theirs windows, buf if you have only 1 cm in Paris it is a drama for the motorist.
Beautiful shots! I can feel the cold through your wonderful photos.
Nydelige frostbilder
wonderful pictures !
Woow so beautiful.Nature is a realy artist
Beautiful photos!