Yesterday was such a gorgeous day! The three of us were able to take a walk around the lake and play at the playground. On the way back, we took some new shadow portraits in the ice of the lake.
It was hard to decide which shadow portrait to use for the header this time, because I liked quite a few of them for different reasons.
Here is the one I chose. (Click over from your FeedReader to check it out!)
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Shadow Portrait January 2009
In this one, we are standing in Momma, Claire and Daddy order. Claire is playing with a new favorite stick she found along the way. Daddy’s just chillin’ on the side, waiting for me to take as many shots as I can before the shortest subject in our charge runs out of the frame and we move to the next location on my mental list of places to capture shadows on the ice.
I love the colors in this one: the golden-brown of the grass, the smoky gray of the ice, the crisp cobalt blue of the shadows on the white snow.
When we took these photos, the sun was shining and it was almost 60-degrees, but you can see where the waves are still frozen in time.
It would be naïve to think that Winter is over, and we’ve lived here long enough to know that it’s not. But, I’ll gladly suffer from the weather-related whiplash if it means I can take ice photos in shirt-sleeves. 
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This is a great shadow portrait! I love the gold and blue hues.
You’re already thinking about winter being over? We’ve barely got going. We have at least another 2 months of serious winter.
Monnik, thanks! I never know how photos turn out until I can pop the card into the reader and see them on the monitor. I was pleasantly surprised!
XUP, it’s that blasted sunshine. The incessant sunshine lulls us into thinking that Spring is here. It’s almost always sunny here, even when it’s cold. Yes, normal people like this kind of thing. I’ve never claimed to be normal.