I like going out to take photos in the winter - there always seems to be something to try to capture - snow, ice, frost, water, reflections, ducks, dry grass. The bare trees and the snow make it less "cluttered" than summer time. And sunrise and sunset are at civilized times :-)
It wasn't an especially spectacular sunrise, but there were enough clouds to make it interesting and give some good color in spots. And to provide some color for reflections. There were quite a few tracks in the snow but the only animals I saw were a few ducks (common goldeneye, I think).
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The close-ups of the ice and water don't have much color anyway so they might as well be black & white. (Although I added a slight blue tint.)
There were lots of track leading from the water - beavers coming to feed on the bushes beside the river:
The bushes were still plastered with recent snow:
I like to shoot the dead grass backlit, and in this case with the reflections of the sunrise in the background:
In this next one I wasn't sure if it would look better with the tree in focus or the moon in focus so I took two shots. I ended up wanting both in focus, so I used Photoshop to focus stack the two images. (A pretty simple case.)
I took 269 photos in about an hour of wandering around. Of course, then I spent multiple additional hours editing and processing them.
See all 32 photos as a slideshow or overview
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