Another cold (relatively speaking) day and I didn’t want to drive to the same old creek again, so I drove to another creek – river, even. I was driving on the small forest roads, it was sometimes icy but the snow wasn’t a problem for sure…

My first stop was at the Högforsen rapids (or waterfall) at the river Voxnan, but it turned out to be impossible to get to the whitewater. The water meanders through rocks and now that there was some ice and snow, I had no way of telling which would be a safe route to the open water so I turned back and continued driving. I stopped at some other rapids but I didn’t find anything to suite my taste so the camera stayed in the bag, until I got to Storlugnet (translates to ”great calm”). There’s actually a dam and a power station at Storlugnet, with signs telling me that I shouldn’t be there. I figured that the risk of getting caught was next to nothing (please don’t tell anyone I was there!), so I happily set up shop by one of the many small waterfalls. So it turned out to be another photo shoot by water… I’ve always liked shooting moving water, but I don’t think I’ve ever really done it quite as much as I’m doing this winter!

I thought about the polariser thing and I can only say that the use of a polariser depends… on a lot of things. A straightforward water scene like the one above works better when polarised, in my opinion anyway. And if in doubt, use the B/G filter, LOL!

Oh and I obviously have a lot of problems with colour balance in these images. You’d think it’s easy to set the levels when there’s snow in the picture, but I struggle!

Oh (2) and by the way, the picture is not leaning. It’s dead straight, but the pine is tilted.