Spring
Ah, Spring! New life! New love! New possibilities! So many songs and poems and stories and paintings have been created based on the promise of renewal that spring brings. And rightly so! The snow and ice (though beautiful in their own right) are melting away to make room for buds and shoots and sprouts and all things green and growing. We get to plant fresh gardens and watch them grow, kind of like having emergency towing companies in Norfolk VA haul away the old to make room for the new. We get to watch flowers open their petals, tentatively, for the first time, and maybe, if we’re very lucky, we’ll have a little family of birds or rabbits in our yard, who will allow us to watch them grow up.
Don’t even get me started on autumn in Canada. And other places, sure, but I’m from Canada, and I’ve had my best autumns here, so it’s Canada I’ll be talking about, thanks very much. It just wouldn’t make much sense to talk about
There is no question that winter offers some of the most stunning photography opportunities. The snow sparkling in the sunlight (or, sometimes even more magically, in the moonlight), the untouched blanket of white powder rolling over hills and meadows, or sometime studded with little animal prints. It’s all absolutely delightful. Makes you want to take a limousine service to a fancy Christmas ball. And don’t even get my started on those days where it’s sunny, with very few clouds, but somehow it still manages to snow those big, fluffly flakes that land in clumps on your clothing, and catch the sunlight as they drift down to the earth. It’s like it’s all out of a fairytale.
Summer is a great time for pictures! There are so many things to do and to take pictures of! There’s hiking, spending time at the beach or the pool, or both! depending on what you’re close to. Hanging out in parks, doing sport things, like pitting the