I took this photograph while visiting my family in Switzerland. This is my aunt’s orchard, during one of those long, foggy winters when everything seems perpetually covered in hoarfrost. Treated in photoshop. Unfortunately, I took this before I upgraded to a Canon Rebel, so it’s low res and only available as a card here on RB, though I’ve successfully enlarged it to a 5×7.
Christmas Day hoarfrost just outside Vienna, Austria.
A cold and frosty day in Austria
The hoarfrosted world on this early 2007 December morning on the grounds of the country-house Groeneveld near Baarn in the Netherlands was really an enchanted world. Seldom have I seen such a rich hoarfrost layer on trees and plants. Groeneveld near Baarn, 22nd December 2007, 9,46 am / Nikon D80, Nikkor 18-200 mm at 18 mm / F 14, 1/60, ISO 200
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Here a second shot from that wonderful morning of 22nd December 2007 when the Netherlands were covered in rich layers of hoarfrost. So what you see here is not snow, but hoarfrost. Taken again on the grounds of the country-house Groeneveld at Baarn.
I was out about 5 hours on that 23rd December , 3 hours in the morning and 2 in the afternoon – and came home with with some 400 pics. Most of them you will never see, as I am extremely selective. But there are quite a few still which are worth showing here, and so here is another one, taken on the Horneboeg Heath at Hilversum just about 10 minutes after I had left home (we are very lucky and live close to that heath). The hoarfrost was less heavy than the day before, but it was still in good quality on north-lying positions where the sun had not eaten it up on the later hours of the day before. And there was mist which had not been there the day before. Someone actually said to me: this day is nothing like yesterday! Why go out! Poor chap! He did not see IT! Hilversum 23rd December 2007, 9.59 am (as you know the sun rises late on that day) / Nikon D 80, Nikkor 18-200 mm at 70 mm / F 13, 1/80, ISO 200
This shot was taken on the first of the four winter days which we had in December. The hoarfrost was nothing what it was to become the next two days, but there was already some of it after a frosty night. Colours were intriguingly subdued due to the morning mist! And is WAS cold! Actually this is one of the few days that I not only carried my tripod along, but actually used it. Light conditions were just very poor this morning. Taken in the forests near Hilversum/The Netherlands. Near Hilversum, 20th December 2007, 0.23 pm / Nikon D 80, Nikkor 18-200 mm at 120 mm / F 13, 1/3, ISO 200
Let me return to the morning of 22nd December last year, by far the most spectacular morning with hoarfrost that we had experienced in years! Here the early sun paints the hoarfrosted trees in fairyland colours. / Taken on the grounds of the country-house Groeneveld near Baarn in the Netherlands. Groeneveld, 22nd December 2007, 9,13 am / Nikon D 80, Nikkor 18-200 mm at 35 mm / F 8, 1/60, ISO 200
Here another shot from those fairy-tale like hoarfrost days in December, again taken in the forest near Hilversum/The Netherlands. The light was pretty poor, but the colours were ever so beautifully softened. Near Hilversum, 20th Decembe 2007, 11.57 am / Nikon D 80, Nikkor 18-200 mm at 35 mm / F 14, 1/4, ISO 200 Again one of my few tripod shots.
This photo shows the pavilion in the Gardens of Herrenhausen, a baroque garden in the center of Hannover, covered in a little bit of hoarfrost.
Airport Munich, Germany – late December / White frost, fog and damp cold created this eerie winter landscape. The scenery looks and feels as if it would be on another planet, or a scene from a sci-fi movie, well rounded by the hint of red in the sky. Set of Two / November /
I will be offering this for sale as soon as I can get the resizing down correctly, until then this will be included in my portfolio. Apophysis 2.08
A leaf and hoarfrost. / . / . / . / . / . / . / . / . / . / . /
Freezing fog in October developed into long needles of ice covering the spruce boughs. / Palmer, Alaska
The challenge in Stream Crossings on “Streams in winter” inspires me to dig out a shot from the best hoarfrost day that I ever experienced in my photographic life (I remember some from my youth, but that was long ago and very long before the age of digital photography). / This shot was taken in the most beautiful park of the country-house of Groeneveld near Baarn which you know already from quite a few shots. Groeneveld, 22nd December 2007, 10.00 am / Nikon D80, Nikkor 18-200 mm at 200 mm / F 10, 1/60, ISO 200 Here two more shots from that great morning in Groeneveld park: And here a later shot of this bridge from November 2008:
One more visit to the hoarfrosted world in Groeneveld park of last December, as so many of you reacted so enthusiastically to my submission of the little bridge there. With ever so many thanks for all delightful comments and favs! Some of you may wonder about the colours. This picture was taken just after sunrise when the light of the first sunbeams of the rising sun hit these trees, indeed creating this miraculous effect. So the miracle of the hoarfrost was enhanced by these first morning sunbeams, making it all into a really enchanted winter world. Groeneveld near Baarn, 22nd December 2007, 9.06 am / Nikon D80, Nikkor 18-200 mm at 28 mm / F 7.1, 1/60, ISO 200
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Hoarfrost on an elm tree! I took this one on film a few winters back. / Hoarfrost show you which way is south (in the northern hemisphere that is), because it forms on the side of a tree or other object that is facing the sun which is to the south. Good thing to know if your lost in the woods on a frosty day. MY BUBBLESITE
A cattail with hoarfrost on it’s fluff. Kinda looks like old man with long, white beard. / Taken with a Canon Rebel XT with a 75-300mm zoom lens. MY BUBBLESITE
On an early, frosty morning, everything was covered in ice crystals. The early hour and the shade caused a bluish tone, which I emphasized even more. / Nikon D40x and 18-135 mm zoom lens.
Spiders’ webs on a gate caught in a hoarfrost
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