winter, and where do we shoot?

No Problem Evan - them puppies sure work!

Me so sad though...it's been a mild, wet winter so far

Murray

MurrayMinchin said:

Me so sad though...it's been a mild, wet winter so far

Murray

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Terrible, it's even been mild & wet here, temperature down to 13°C during the day 6°C at night and rain to

Until I took my wife ti England last April she'd never seen snow except in films

Joking apart I don't envy you Murray it's not much fun when it's wet, and your used to wrapping up well and coping with the snow. You'd laugh your head off if you saw how the locals dress up here in the winter, thick coats, sweaters, hats, scarves etc, you'd be in a T-shirt.

Ian

MurrayMinchin said:

No Problem Evan - them puppies sure work!

Me so sad though...it's been a mild, wet winter so far

Murray

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Murray, Ian,
Too bad, we have already had 0 degrees here with snow and the Lake Michigan shoreline has yielded some interesting photos. I don't scan any more but might do a couple "images" from the photographs so I can post them here..Thanks again, Murray..Evan

P.S. My neighbor and I both have the Minchin pig warmers under our paper trays and they are great too..EC

Winter finally arrived here. We are having a cold snap. It only got up to 71 degrees yesterday so we had to break out the sweaters!

Brrrr ...

Stevve

Snowing again, here

The last batch went away a few days ago. I'm heading out to record the Holiday lights again tonight. Exactly what I need, another roll or two to add to the 23,476 Holiday light photos I already have from years past. They're irresistable to me, though, and I can't say that all 23,000+ are nice so it never hurts to practice.

For the most part, in Winter I do the same kind of stuff that Summer features.
Ok, I don't use the submersible camera for it's purpose as much, but with the cold rains that Winter sometimes brings it still gets out a lot.

Jo

eclarke said:

Noiw that it is winter here in Wisconsin I have been enjoing one of my favorite photo accessories, Kahtoola Micro Spikes which Murray turned the APUG community onto last year. You can go anywhere any time uinder any conditions wearing these on your feet. Thanks, Murray!!..Evan Clarke

http://www.kahtoola.com/microspikes.html

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I've had those since 1984. They rock!

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Paul,

I don't know if they sell these in the UK, but here in the USA there's a company called Optech/USA that makes a product called Rainsleeve. It is a plastic bag with elastic on one end. You put the elastic hole around the lens, near the front of it (I put it on the lens hood so the whole lens is covered) and the rest of the bag goes back over your camera and keeps it dry in the rain. They're cheap, $7 for a two pack. I think that's about 4 pounds?

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Optech/ USA products are indeed sold in the UK Chris, I use their neckstraps on all my cameras.

Vaughn said:

I was just down there for Thanksgiving (San Clemente)...we spent most of the time in the ocean...I love body-surfing! The water was warm -- lower 60'sF.

Vaughn

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I was just thinking how lucky you are, anyone goes body surfing around the UK at this time of year it would be dead body surfing, the average sea temperature around our shores only varies about two degrees between Summer and Winter, even in a heatwave the water is still cold.

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I was just thinking how lucky you are, anyone goes body surfing around the UK at this time of year it would be dead body surfing, the average sea temperature around our shores only varies about two degrees between Summer and Winter, even in a heatwave the water is still cold.

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You've never been to Newquay, Cornwall, then Ben in November/December

They'll be out there right now

Ian

I must admit I have never been to Cornwall Ian, and the last time I was at the South Coast was a lifetime ago in the early 60s when I did my training as a young Marine and I still recall how cold the water was more than forty years later.

benjiboy said:

I was just thinking how lucky you are, anyone goes body surfing around the UK at this time of year it would be dead body surfing, the average sea temperature around our shores only varies about two degrees between Summer and Winter, even in a heatwave the water is still cold.

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Well, I know where I live is not typical of the UK, but there were two surfers on the beach last night.And I expect to see them here wherever the temperature - snow and all.

The season doesn't really bother me (in the UK its never that cold in the winter or that hot in the summer either)

I am rather partial to photography in the winter - there are far fewer people out and about to detract from my landscapes.

Fog can usefully isolate stuff from a distracting background.

Rain brings rock surfaces to life.

What bothers me is the grey overcast skies that last for days on end giving a very boring flat light - we seem to get them a lot in both mid winter and mid-summer.

To me the best light occurs when rain (or occasionally) snow storms are about to descend - the camera and I end up getting very wet - but if I have at least one decent shot in the bag, I can go home happy to dry my kit out.

Martin