Winter Solstice 2015

Winter solstice is one of my favourite shooting days of the year. At my latitude it's basically a 5-hour long golden hour where I can sleep in, eat a relaxed breakfast and still be out before sunrise. We have a newborn now so I haven't shot much in the past couple of months but I managed to get out for almost three hours. I was shooting large and medium format, B&W and color at - 20 degrees C.

I was heading home on my bicycle with one frame of Portra 400 left in my Fuji GS645W when I came upon this scene. This was sometime before 1 PM so basically the sun at its highest point in the sky. It's probably my favourite shot from the day.

Did anyone else shoot on the solstice? Please share your images!

Trees and Ice Fog, Yukon River by Dead Link Removed, on Flickr

Very nice. Yesterday I started a six month long solargraph. Of my back yard. It's probably a pretty boring scene, but it's an experiment. I did one a couple years ago but only left the camera out for a month. I don't think it was long enough, hopefully this one will turn out better.



It's a metal coffee can with a pinhole in one side. The lid is clear plastic, so I put some aluminum foil under the lid to make it light tight. Pretty low tech.

Thats a great shot!. Man a bicycle in those conditions? Do you have the balloon snow tires?

I shot yesterday morning and have a few photos in the thread below this one.