Will Knott

How do you make a photograph of a cold scene look colder?

Add blue?
Photo 22 of 365

Its the combination of snow and palm trees that will always look wrong

Photo 21 of 365

Photo 18 of 365
Blackbird in the snow. Not desaturated.

Its getting warmer, hard to believe at times, but there you are. Sadly I have a LOT of cold pics to go through.

I get the impression that I’m doing the 365 wrong. It should be a shot of that day. However my access gets limited at times. Offline blog writers are a necessary evil right now, as are scheduled posts. Since there doesn’t seem to be any possibility of stabilization, its this or nothing.

Photos 11 and 12 of 365

9 of 365 Snow bound Dublin Hills

Should have cropped the posts put of the right hand side, but too late.  If you know the area, the Rathcoole branch of Avoca is on the other side of the trees.  Personally I think it looks slightly dreamy.

7 of 365 Bare tree in Cashel

8 of 365 Tree Lights in Abbeyleix

Similar trees on the same day, but while one seems cold and foreboding, the lights in the other imply warmth and care.

A little light can do so much.

Just add snow to Dublin roads.

Perhaps it was a mistake to try and drive the Naas Dual-Carriageway, a road known for bad traffic jams in the snow. Unfortunately I didn’t think I had a choice (still not sure).

What I didn’t count on was the number of exits which would be blocked by trucks unable to climb the ramps (due to ice and compressed snow), and four trucks jackknifing (and colliding with each other) at the Rathcoole exit / Junction 4 knocking out the hard shoulder and 3 lanes of traffic.

In fairness, it was chaos all over the place. Unfortunatenly once you made it on to a motorway, you couldn’t get off.

I can’t help wondering about people stuck on the M50. Would they get multiple automated charges as their cars were detected (stuck) by the electronic barriers for too long? There might be a story there.

The old rule of “bring your camera everywhere” played well, at least I have a set of photos from the traffic.

take care,
Will Knott