Winter Snowscapes (PHOTOS)

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Sunset In Huetor Natural Park

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[mango55]

02:32 PM on 12/28/2009

I wonder... it looks like these photos were all grabbed from Flickr... (I hope the photographers gave permission), and even though readers are invited to "participate", new images are not showing up. Why bother asking for contributions, if none are getting posted?

[Pleneras]

11:46 PM on 12/27/2009

I lived in Silverdale WA, Kitsap County and that WA photo was not the best. The view from my window was absolutely breathtaking.

[Artemis34]

04:20 AM on 12/28/2009

We're neighbors, I'm in British Columbia! The Pacific Northwest is so beautiful.

[heidiMT]

11:04 PM on 12/27/2009

Spent the past three days out in the snow. Just had a big snowstorm in northern MN and being out in the woods while its snowing is heavenly.

[MachCrit]

01:23 PM on 12/27/2009

The mountainscape, Cerro Torre, Torre Egger and Torre Stanhardt, in Patagonia, are spectacular enough without the cheesy photoshopping.

[DietPepsi]

06:29 PM on 12/27/2009

So you believe the only good photography is that which does not have any post production work? Do you realize that most of the images in use today would thus be eliminated? Your theory of image making puts you in a small minority.

They are great images, they do not require the added burden of having to look exactly like the real thing. The goal is to make a beautiful image not to document. They aren't going in a history book they were worked over to get the great recognition they have received.

Open your brain, lose the radicalization.

[SpiralDenial]

01:28 AM on 12/31/2009

Post-production work is fine when it's done well, but you apparently don't understand the difference between competent post-production work and cheesy photoshopping. Quit trying to paint the critics of the blatantly bad photoshopping as being close-minded. They're simply observing that the post-production work was badly done, not that it shouldn't ever be done.

[itsme leclerc]

10:13 AM on 12/27/2009

how can pictures that are pure kitsch (Argentina, Wales) and obviously heavily manipulated (specially for the first one) become rated #1 and 3 ? These pictures are sheer horror.

[SpiralDenial]

12:25 PM on 12/27/2009

I completely agree. The best of these photos are mundane and unremarkable. The worst are heavily and amateurishly photoshopped.

[DietPepsi]

03:58 PM on 12/27/2009

Laugh. Point us to your photo web site. Lets see if you ever in your life have created one single image that comes anywhere near to what these images have done! No link? What a surprise.

It's art man. Darn good art. You can quantify an image in terms of tones, patterns, texture, perspective, the use of lines/curves but in the end real art just hits you. It has that something artistic that goes along with a technically good image.

There is no immutable law that says a great image can't have it's color, tone, and imperfections adjusted. If the impact is there, if it works, it's a great image. I myself like to work with monotone scenes, black and white. But a good range of tones often helps to make for a dramatic impact.

Here's one of my images. http://home.comcast.net/~disposable12/old%20town%20hall.jpg It was taken with a Mamiya M645 medium format film camera using a tripod and remote release. Hand metered. I then scanned the film, made minor adjustments in photoshop and have posted for a few friends.

It's a good shot. These images above are great shots. Very good work.

So what do you know oh great critic? Where is your photographic work?

[kernel lib]

08:06 PM on 12/27/2009

oh yea .....lets cry about it . why dont you come up with better ones instead of just criticize others?

[Mehida-Loco]

04:18 AM on 12/27/2009

I love these photos and I absolutely love winter. I hate summer!

[Suntio]

04:13 AM on 12/27/2009

Ah, Paris ...

[SiberianRat]

03:10 AM on 12/27/2009

I like winter--good thing, considering where I live. There are snow and ice sculptures everywhere, there's an ice city with luge-like sledding down and incline toward the bank of the frozen over river. In a park on the outskirts of town, there's a natural park with several kilometers of well-tended cross-country trails, and the southern part of the city, home to a pretty big university, has lots of natural birch forests with tended and even natural skiing. Downhill is available in the city too on the river slopes, although their just that--river slopes, not mountains. However, not bad considering you can take the subway there. There's outdoor ice-skating too, although sometimes people still go indoors because it can get harshly cold here--it was -44C/-48F a couple of mornings ago. Luckily, we've warmed up to -16C/+3F and it's snowing--nice and white and clean looking...

[Dogontired]

05:56 PM on 12/28/2009

I think I might know where you are, (I won't name the city since you didn't). Last time I was there was for one of the winter festivals in the mid 70ies. It's a beautiful city if we're talking about the same place.

I like winter too, but if given the choice I'd live in a warmer climate. However my wife loves the cold so here we stay.

[SFTor]

01:01 AM on 12/27/2009

That's right.

If it gets warmer, it's global warming. If colder, also global warming. Windier, wetter, drier, blusterier, or more or less unstable: global warming. High clouds? Low clouds? You get the picture.

If it's weather it's global warming, even as if previously mentioned it should be getting warmer, colder, or remain in the middle, drift sideways, coast without particular direction or vector, or, God forbid, not change appreciably or very much at all. It's all surefire signs of global warming.

Did I mention global warming?

[DietPepsi]

03:48 PM on 12/27/2009

The next ice age will only be proof of man caused climate change and "global warming".

Meanwhile we now now that Antartica has more sea ice accumulating on the far side to that which broke off and everyone was crying that the world is warming.

Of course, the left has smeared all the scientists that have come forward pointing out that Antaritica is accumulating more ice than it is losing. Why smear them? Well, radicalized people who are fanatically wedded to a political weather agenda dare not let any fact that doesn't line up with "global warming" be heard and they desperately seek to discredit everyone who stands against them.

30,000 sign a petition denouncing the global warming hype? They denounce all 30,000....and believe they are right to denounce them. That's what you can accomplish with radicalized masses....they will march off a cliff for you after you radicalize them. Drink the Poised Jim Jones Koo-lade. Pass laws to destroy their economy and life style. Radicalized people do not think, the work on rage and anger.

[SemperVeritas]

12:52 AM on 12/27/2009

Where are the CREDITS???

HP should know better. Every photo should appear with
attribution and copyright information.

This kind of usage just amounts to blatant theft of property.

[EvoMan]

01:02 AM on 12/27/2009

If I put anything moderately useful up on flickr, I restrict access to it. To me, flickr is for snapshots, putting serious work there without restricted access is just asking someone to steal it.

[DietPepsi]

04:22 PM on 12/27/2009

Stock Photos.

[EvoMan]

12:23 AM on 12/27/2009

The scene of the southern tip of Argentina is either bad HDR or heavily manipulated in some other digital manner. How do I know? Reflections aren't brighter than what is being reflected. The thing positively screams, "FAKE."

[knight7se7en]

09:09 PM on 12/26/2009

Winter is beautiful.......don't believe the hype....

[knight7se7en]

09:09 PM on 12/26/2009

Winter is beautiful....don't believe the hype......

[ETSpoon]

09:02 PM on 12/26/2009

Sorry if I don't get too excited. I'm looking at new snow on top of ice on top of snow from two weeks ago.

[DietPepsi]

05:05 PM on 12/26/2009

Great Photos.

If life hands you a pile of snow and ice and forces you to fly home early from the global warming conference to beat the record breaking snow storms (like Pelosi and entourage).....might as well make some beautiful pictures!

Who says photography is not art? Not me. Some of these images are magnificent.

[yamaniyama]

05:47 PM on 12/26/2009

I've witnessed other similar sarcastic comments about global warming this winter. Take note: Global warming causes weather extremes on both ends of the spectrum.

[DietPepsi]

05:56 PM on 12/26/2009

I have noted that even a new ice age could be seen as merely evidence of "global warming and man induced climate change". To a believer there is nothing that is legitimate scientific evidence to the contrary, even when peer reviewed scientists put forward such evidence.

I did not mention Pelosi's rush from the global warming conference as evidence that the global warming myth is a myth. I merely mentioned it for the obvious irony of her fleeing to beat a nasty winter storm after putting forward the idea that we are warming the planet and must take drastic action to save it.

[DietPepsi]

06:12 PM on 12/26/2009

No Scientific evidence you say? And you must say there is no evidence that global warming may not be what the left says it is right?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517035,00.html

Sea Ice and Ice in general at the Antartica which has the bulk of the worlds Ice has expanded not shrunk. Scientific Fact.

The real inconvenient truth. Does the fact that ice is expanding at the Antarctica entirely disprove global warming being accelerated by man? No. But the left has so focused on the ice of Antarctica that it is shocking to learn that the ice at Antarctica is expanding and that there has been no total lose of sea ice because it's building up on once side more than you are losing on the other.

That's the danger in people looking for simplistic anecdotal evidence that global warming is true. Be it Polar bears which are expanding not shrinking or the Antarctic ice that is expanding not shrinking......the anecdotal evidence can soon be found to be false then global warming losses thousands of believers.

Now the global warmists are a determined radicalized bunch. With this fact and science evidence debunking one of their major legs of support....they no doubt have put up competing web sites to smear those who conduct the study and denounce the fact and the science.

We know that's how the warming game is played. It's the politics of personal destruction....destroy anyone who does not support the agenda.