The cold spell has finally broken. I always say that it isn’t a proper winter if the temperature doesn’t dip below -20 degrees centigrade but four weeks of it in a row… is a bit a much, only a handful of days when it wasn’t quite that cold. Somehow I prefer my photo excursions without frozen toes, fingers, face and camera gear. When the tripod leg locks freeze, it’s too cold for photography! Anyway, today it was only -12°C so really a pleasant day to be out, I picked the afternoon so I could see the sunset. It wasn’t very interesting though because it was all clear skies, so what I would really have needed was an interesting silhouette against the blue/orange post-sunset gradient. But all of these cold temperatures also mean that it hasn’t been snowing, and the existing snow we have is looking a bit old. The scenery is somehow broken with only patches of snow hanging on the trees, but sometimes you find something that the wind hasn’t destroyed yet so you just have to take the opportunity then.