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Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Moonscapes not far from home

Textured fragility
London, ON
January 2022
This photo originally shared on Instagram


It's been wintering for what seems like weeks. One storm after another. Arctic blasts of cold. Snow- and ice-covered everything. All under relentlessly steel-grey skies.

The other night was particularly miserable. As the dog and I walked past the neighborbood convenience store, the owner's SUV was the only vehicle in the snow-tracked parking lot. It was idling in that quintessentially Canadian pre-drive warm-up/clean-up ritual.

The headlights lit up the ground by the sidewalk, their low-angled shafts of light throwing off otherworldly-looking shadows that caught my eye.

While Calli stuck her nose deep into a snowbank and sniffed/snored loudly, I crouched down, took my phone out, composed quickly before my fingers froze, and snapped a single frame.

I'm not sure if this is a snowscape, a moonscape, or a winter-weary combination of the two. And I'm not sure definitions matter here. Point is, I liked what I saw, and this is the result.

It's kind of why I got into photography in the first place. And kind of why I rather enjoy this time of year despite the inconvenience of it all.

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Chasing snow at night, November 2021
Winter still sucks, February 2020
Zoomed in snowdrift, February 2020

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