January 2026!

[John Geerts]

Continuing Snow

A special snow man....

Nikon D4s   135DC

[Birna Rørslett]

Very low light, lots of snow.

Using the Z fc as a point'shoot.

[Birna Rørslett]

Snow makes for minimalistic images. Yet, snow has internal structures.

Z fc, Nikkor 70-180Z

[Fons Baerken]

boat on the river

Zf  Voigtländer 35mm f/2 apo

Here at f/8 looking at the fine structure of the trees in the distance.

[Birna Rørslett]

Calm, intensely cold weather, plenty of hexagonal ice crystals in the air, clear skies, very low sun, high latitude => perfect conditions for development of parhelia ('sun dogs') and other refractive atmospherical phenomena.

I snapped this on my return from the dentist's. The narrow angle of the 40mm Nikkor meant I only got one out of two sun dogs in this frame. This is the right hand side dog.

[Birna Rørslett]

The other -- left hand side -- sun dog.

[christeo]

Calm, intensely cold weather, plenty of hexagonal ice crystals in the air, clear skies, very low sun, high latitude => perfect conditions for development of parhelia ('sun dogs') and other refractive atmospherical phenomena.

I snapped this on my return from the dentist's. The narrow angle of the 40mm Nikkor meant I only got one out of two sun dogs in this frame. This is the right hand side dog.

Nice caption of this beautiful cold phenomena!

[John Geerts]

Tree at the bin...

D4s 135DC

[Akira]

Calm, intensely cold weather, plenty of hexagonal ice crystals in the air, clear skies, very low sun, high latitude => perfect conditions for development of parhelia ('sun dogs') and other refractive atmospherical phenomena.

I snapped this on my return from the dentist's. The narrow angle of the 40mm Nikkor meant I only got one out of two sun dogs in this frame. This is the right hand side dog.

A beautiful natural optical phenomenon is captured.  In Japanese, we call it ”幻日(gen-jitsu)", meaning "phantasmal sun”.

[pluton]

I snapped this on my return from the dentist's. The narrow angle of the 40mm Nikkor meant I only got one out of two sun dogs in this frame. This is the right hand side dog.

I've never seen sun dogs in front of the landscape, only up high in the sky.  Amazing!

[Birna Rørslett]

I retuned with the very wide Viltrox 9mm f/2.8; too  wide to give the 'sun dogs' full impact size-wise, but better allowed to see them as a landscape element.

The left-hand side dog is barely visible behind the forest line, but its right hand companion shines brightly. A reminder to keep dust off the front of my wide angles, though I did shoot with the 9mm stopped all the way down to render reflections in the car more visible and of course this is to invite the presence of unwanted flare specks and dust on the sensor. My bad.

[ARTUROARTISTA]

After the recent rains, thousands of "Oxalis pes-caprae" flowers are blooming in the fields.

[Birna Rørslett]

I've seen this at Paco's place when I visit him in early spring. O. pes-caprae is naturalised in Spain and other warmer regions and actually is considered an invasive species. It has a South African origin.

[ARTUROARTISTA]

I've seen this at Paco's place when I visit him in early spring. O. pes-caprae is naturalised in Spain and other warmer regions and actually is considered an invasive species. It has a South African origin.

Here we call them "Vinagrillo" because of their vinegar taste; we are used to them, they are part of the landscape, the flowers open with the sun.

[John Geerts]

I retuned with the very wide Viltrox 9mm f/2.8; too  wide to give the 'sun dogs' full impact size-wise, but better allowed to see them as a landscape element.

The left-hand side dog is barely visible behind the forest line, but its right hand companion shines brightly. A reminder to keep dust off the front of my wide angles, though I did shoot with the 9mm stopped all the way down to render reflections in the car more visible and of course this is to invite the presence of unwanted flare specks and dust on the sensor. My bad.

Great shot Birna.  And three times the sun