“No winter lasts forever, no spring skips its turn.”
I know these words are true, yet this winter sure has me feeling like a non believer. April snow, icy rains, unseasonable low temps. Then yesterday a fog so thick it felt like winter soup. Barely a green thing to be found. I am kind of beyond calling it a funk. So what to do? I still find myself carrying my camera with me everywhere I go. Is it hope or habit? I sure see my images match my mood, darker, moody, even a bit sad. Not everyday is sunshine and rainbows, though I am sure ready for some. Do you feel your mood seep into your photography? Does art imitate life or the other way around?
What mood have you captured lately?
I was soaking up the moodiness of my surroundings the other day when the sun came out and sent me off in another direction. You can see the progression below.
http://giftsofthejourney.wordpress.com/2011/03/25/why-my-camera-is-not-good-for-my-health/
And – being in the northeast right here with you…you know we've had a lot of the same:
http://www.marciescudderphotography.com/home/2011/4/5/look-within.html
So sorry about your late spring! It's affecting so many people. I hope your weather breaks soon and you get the green and sun you are craving!
Often of late, I find myself in a thoughtful mood, where images take on layers of meanings…
http://www.kateyeview.com/2011/04/decade-later.html
When the day is dreary, misty, and moody, I try a little something different —
http://suehenryphotography.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/tree-triptych/
I love the bluish tone in this image. It really sets the mood. These branches are even waiting for Spring to arrive in full force. This is a shot I posted on Texture Tuesday with Kim Klassen. It's a whole pond waiting for spring to come…
http://jessicavescera.blogspot.com/2011/04/warm-sun-texture-submission.html
i just love this moody picture and the hope giving quote. i may as well put it as a title for all my latest shots. i live in a place where winter lasts more than other seasons and by april i get so very tired of whites, greys and bare trees. i do take sometimes my camera with me (hope or habit, hard to say) but i also tend to go into my archives for more colorful and more happy pictures.
Oh man, I so understand your frame of mind, Kristin. It's been the exact same way here in Nova Scotia. Still snow..not much but enough to make you depressed. It's been gloomy and grey. When the sun comes out..it's usually bitterly cold. Blah. So the other day I grabbed my camera and went for a walk in the woods…determined to find green. Sigh. I was mostly unlucky but then I spotted these and I was soo happy. Funny how pussywillows and blue sky can change everything..
http://www.flickr.com/photos/darkangel71/5589637789/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/darkangel71/5591421281/in/photostream/
and a little sparkle on the water also helps…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/darkangel71/5576810300/in/photostream/
I love your moody, foggy blue photo with that lone drop just…just waiting…to fall.
It's no longer cold in Florida, but we've had saturating, relentless rains that are tough for those
of us so used to the sun. Swollen rivers, soggy yards, mud. On the flip side, the moody sky last night presented some signs of hope.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/58066769@N05/5594379625/
Optimistic that spring is, indeed, on her way…(fingers crossed that it's very soon)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ko2008/5562305769/in/photostream/
Here's a shot captured last year. A March snow. Looking forward to sunshine and warm breezes, not snow and cold weather. I remember feeling "I'm so over winter". Blech.
http://dorisrudddesigns.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/61-365/
http://fingerontheshutter.com/
I am lamenting the lateness of spring also. Bring on the warmth!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dontforgetthehorse/5586652929/
I'm not sure what I'd call the mood I was in a few days ago when I captured this, but I do know they match.
We had a big thunder and rain storm pass through yesterday and everything was dark and gloomy. I found that darkness and moodiness reflected in yesterday's image.
http://dychedesigns.blogspot.com/2011/04/turning-pages.html
There are some moods that don't need external sunshine to make our hearts sing. Who can't remember the delicious drunkeness of being in love? I captured this shot out my (passengers:)) window of a moment like that. The fact that the sun had just gone down and I had forgotten to change my settings at first disappointed me – but then I decided to capitalize on the dreamy, unreal quality that the blur invoked. I like the results.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/56221446@N06/5578904815
This shot is beautiful.
Kristin…this is dripping with beauty!!! the tones are gorgeous. Your words hit home with me. Yes, I do see my mood reflected in my images. Lately I feel a little lost….don't know which direction my life should take….and I find I'm drawn to street photography. Searching for something in the people and cities around me….searching, I think, for some answers within my own life….
http://www.flickr.com/photos/35374947@N04/5587489151/
Oh goodness! That photo IS moody. Well done!
We still have much snow here but the sun is coming out and the weight is being lifted. Yesterday, upon getting home from work, the kids and I hung out outside for nearly an hour enjoying the sun (even though we still have to have coats on):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/betsyblue/5594184726/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/betsyblue/5594183258/in/photostream/
Felt a bit flat just before the holiday season in December last year but when I put these up it immediately felt like Christmas 🙂
http://www.flickr.com/photos/53759195@N05/5359769323/
Spring is finally here in California. The wildflowers are a little late this year due to it being colder than usual, but they're now showing up! In a couple of weeks we should start seeing some pretty awesome wildflowers images from here. There's hope, hang in there.
Taken on my back hill (a small bunch of poppies amongst all the weeds that need pulling):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/50434777@N00/5587279481/
Thank you all for sharing your thoughts and images about this long winter! I was beginning to think it was just me
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i was recently in puerto rico to get away from the dreary north east. while there, i captured my carefree mood in colors and textures.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27504577@N07/5571156411/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27504577@N07/5571752616/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27504577@N07/5571129121/in/photostream/
when we arrived back, i had somehow gotten it in my head that it would be sixty and sunny in manhattan. not so much. i captured that mood in the next round of photos. . .
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27504577@N07/5575747550/in/photostream/
it's coming guys, it surely is.
this was my mood Sunday
http://www.flickr.com/photos/autumnsun/5587684406/
I set a haunting mood with this photo. At least that's what I was hoping for…
http://lifesignatures.org/wordpress/2011/04/april-6-in-another-light/
In south Germany spring has come, and it looks like summer. I don't like so much these sharp contrasts, which give you no chance to perceive the change. At least, the sky is brilliant. This is my past sunday (with italian quotes…)
http://oneofthesethingscomesfirst.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/una-passeggiata-con-pavese/
Took pictures at Alcatraz last week, talk about mood.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/junebugphotography/5589725421/
Mercifully we've had some spring here, but sometimes the mood descends for no apparent reason. I just woke up that way on Monday and I had no choice but to make a moody picture for my 365:
http://www.birdwannawhistle.com/blog/2011/4/5/mood.html
I love photographing pictures at sunset…the lighting makes the mundane look beautiful. We go to Eastern WA every couple of years to pick up wine barrels for our garden and I took a snap of one just for fun…
http://www.kimberlygauthier.com/flowers/sunset-photography-blossoms-and-a-barrel/4650/
We had rain here in Northern Cali for months and months. At one point, it felt like it would never let up. But then … after patiently waiting her turn, Spring came. It's finally been sunny and beautiful. I've been taking advantage of the weather by walking to work. Shot this on my way the other day: http://bigmariolife.blogspot.com/2011/04/52-weeks-week-12.html
I went for a walk with my dog a week or so ago. At first it was sprinkling, then the rain became a downpour, and then the sun came it. It was glorious, and I took a few pictures after the rain with my little point & shoot. They came out incredibly blue:
http://mischief-making.blogspot.com/2011/03/tangled-up-in-blue.html
Although this photo was taken in February, things haven't changed much in wet Seattle. I'm ready to see the sun!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/52055227@N07/5595662672/
I try to embrace the beauty at hand, whatever the season. But, lately I have just had too much of winter – the cold, snow, and bleakness…… so, I've been doing some shooting indoors. Seeking out color. Sometimes it's flowers, other times an art project in my studio – lov'in the visual excitement of color.
http://www.vandemarkdesigns.blogspot.com/2011/04/bead.html
In these shots, the winter mood feels SPOOOOOKY.
Those trees, that ghost whispering on the water.
http://whichwayishomeagain.blogspot.com/2011/04/wind-moves-through-water.html
heading to work and its rainy and all i want to do is go back home and crawl back into bed.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/greeneyephotos/5573637979/
I don't know if I captured the mood in these photos, but the northernmost point of New Zealand is a mystical place that got me all goosebumpy. Perhaps you have to just BE there:
http://angela-hemming.blogspot.com/2011/04/tip-of-top-of-new-zealand.html
I am so in love with this shot. Brilliant. I found you through Ashley Sisk. How can I follow you?
i was feeling a bit out of sorts today but this brought a smile to my face…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/impossibletask/5595754768/
yes, it HAS been a very long winter… I just hope we don't go from winter straight to summer with no spring… 🙁
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/colopyfam/5595781159/
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at little joy here – sunshine (still cool), buds!, and ONE tulip!!
No mood captures lately, I just look around without mooding the mood, 🙂
I soaked up the beautiful colours, architecture and details in Marrakech the last week.
And now I am looking so much forward to spring and summer!
http://le-fabuleux-destin-de.blogspot.com/2011/04/marrakech-museum.html
http://le-fabuleux-destin-de.blogspot.com/2011/04/marrakech-ben-youssef-madrasa.html
Jumping for joy off a giant sand dune!
http://angela-hemming.blogspot.com/2011/04/biggest-sandbox-in-world-te-paki-sand.html
I know JUST what you mean…it is pure craziness. Where, oh where, is Spring?
Here, I think I captured the all encompassing love and adoration I feel for my baby. Even if she drives me crazy on a regular basis.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/libertadleal/5570485898/
Here, hopeful, sunny, happy, light
http://www.flickr.com/photos/libertadleal/5505214100
Here, sort of sad, dark
http://www.flickr.com/photos/libertadleal/5580945661/
Never a dull moment over here.
Here's an eerie type mood I captured on a foggy morning. http://kathycaptureslife.wordpress.com/2011/03/18/foggy-start-to-the-day/
For the last year I have been wanting to travel to new places around the world. I want to explore, see beautiful things, help people, have fun and practice photography and art.
It seems to be on my mind a lot recently.
A couple of weeks ago was our first really sunny and warm spell of spring. So I zoomed off to the beach at my first chance. I crave the beach. To get to a really nice one I have to travel 2 hours, so it isn't that easy.
It was bliss going there and I am already thinking of when I can next go.
Whilest I was there I took this photo
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lizzie-staley/5607895762/
I guess it shows my desire to explore and have some freedom.