I wrote this text on the 2nd of December, 2023, after walking and doing street photography for two hours wearing summer clothes when the temperature was -2 degrees Celsius (28.4 degrees Fahrenheit).
While walking and doing street photography in the freezing cold, I realized you won’t see cold in most of my pictures, my Dear Friend. It’s a realization that fuels my desire to improve. Of course, one can feel the relatively low temperatures in some of my photographs, with leafless trees covered with snow, for example. Still, for today, I cannot express my feelings of feeling cold in my pictures. It’s a challenge I’m determined to overcome. While writing about all these things, I realized I can do some challenges to do it. For example, I photographed my naked leg* (I wore shorts) with the ice and snow in the background today.
Is it showing a coldness in photos?
Perhaps it is. Still, I know that while watching in the warm house, my photos, which I took while it was frigid outside and I wore summer clothes, I did not feel the coldness I felt when I took a picture. That was my digression on the day of writing. I wonder how to show cold except by presenting pictures with snow, ice, or leafless trees. Perhaps I will make up something one day. Undoubtedly, I cannot force creativity. I wrote about it in one of my last posts. In the case of today’s post, it won’t work if the more I try to force myself to show cold, the better results I will get.
It may be an accident that I will present coldness in one of my images.
Now, I reminded myself that perhaps I took some pictures a few years ago in Brok (Bojany) when I could show frigid temperatures. Still, today, when I walk in summer clothes in freezing temperatures, it is difficult for me to transform the feeling of coldness into my photos.
*I published this photo in the post “Discovering Freedom in Street Photography.”
