The Black and White World of Winter

Winter scenes often lends themselves to black and white photography because of the natural contrast provided between white snow and dark objects.

I didn’t make these image in black and white originally, but converted them in Photoshop.

All were made from the dome car of a Cuyahoga Valley Valley Scenic Railroad train during a February trip in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park.

It was snowing when the train left Akron and some of that snow stuck to the windows. Hence the spots that you see in the images.

The top image was made in Brecksville and features the Cuyahoga River and the Ohio Route 82 bridge over the Cuyahoga River.

The middle image shows a house along the Cuyahoga in Peninsula, Ohio. The bottom image portrays a lock on the Ohio & Erie Canal known as Deep Lock. The bridge in the latter image spans the canal.

Almost Lost in the Snow Shower

It had been snowing heavily earlier in the day but then it quit. By late afternoon as I was getting my last photographs during an outing to the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, I saw a guy get cross country skis out of his vehicle at Indigo Lake.

I saw a photo opportunity, but it took a minute or so to get my camera out. By then, he had strapped on his skis and headed out.

That guy was really making tracks. At the same time a heavy snow shower descended on the area. I couldn’t catch up with the skier on foot and the best I could do was zoom out far as my lens would go to get him moving away from me at a rapid clip.