Snow falls silently outside my window and I marvel, like a child, at the wonder, and the whiteness of it all.  I’m inspired by the white of winter in the Rocky Mountains and this inspiration has found its way into my abstract photography.  Snow adds a layer of clarity and quietness to my surroundings.  It beckons calm, it covers flaws, and creates a white frame around what is.  The river flows with depth and vigor nestled between banks of snow, the sky shines brighter as the sun glints off the white mountain tops, and the night sky is more dramatic because of the ambient light of the snow.  All these aspects were the inspiration for the macro photograph below, Boreas*, which is Greek for Winter God.  It captures the white, the wind and the blue that tinges the edges of the winter landscape.  I hope you find your inspiration in the power of winter.



* BOREAS was the purple-winged god of the north wind, one of the four directional Anemoi (wind-gods). He was also the god of winter, who swept down from the cold northern mountains of Thrake, chilling the air with his icy breath. To the north, beyond his mountain home, lay Hyperborea, a land of eternal spring which was never touched by the god's cold wind.

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