Photograph a Scene Throughout a Day - Kivrin
I spent my day yesterday hanging out at my friend's house and decided to take my 4 photos at a park near their house. We turned it into a small ritual, hauling our mildly inebriated selves out into the cold every couple hours to revisit the photoshoot.
In this experience, I tried to look for a location that looked and felt like what I have always associated Washington's winters. Looking up photos of Washington in winter, you come across photos of snow covered conifers in pristine mountainous landscapes, but this has never exactly been my experience. For me, I have always lived in the highly populated portions of the pacific northwest in a weather cycle highly affected by low elevation and the proximity to the ocean. When it's cold enough to freeze, it's never wet enough to snow. When it's wet enough to rain, it's never cold enough snow. Much of the pristine landscapes in the search results of "Washington state winter photos," doesn't apply to where I live. This project is a way for me to remedy that.
To me, I see the winters here as bleak, grey, and dead. There seems to be two distinct kinds of winter days, the dark, wet, rainy weeks, and the bright, bitterly cold, frost covered days. I tried to capture the latter in these photos. Between houses, you can sometimes stumble across small park trails full of greying shrubs and tiny misshapen trees. I've spent the last half hour trying to identify the main tree species in these photos, but for some reason can't pin down a name. From sunrise to sunset, a sheen of frost covers every surface. Interestingly, the air lacks any moisture despite the frost. Around 5 PM, the frost seems to recede as the sun finishes setting. It seems to me that the frost forms in the early morning before sunrise and lasts throughout the day until the sun just starts managing to melt it, only for the process to repeat.
As much as I am making winter here seem miserable, it is by far my favorite season. Especially on days like this when the air is dry, the light bleak, and the days short. There's a certain ugly yet comforting quality to it that I don't see portrayed in images.
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