Photography during the dead season

Continuing the discussion from Anyone collect physical media?:

I don’t want to hijack the previous discussion so starting a new topic. Yeah, I started a project this past February for a friend (since passed) where I promised to take a photo a day and blog about it. I have gotten a photo a day since except for one day where I was so sick with covid I was stuck in my chair, so I took pics of my cat sleeping on me that day.

It’s easy to keep up with the blog when it’s nice outside and there are pretty things to photograph or I am on a river or a lake with a paddle board…

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Now it’s dark when I start work, dark when I finish work, and everything outside is dead and gross looking. I’m struggling. Toss any ideas you have my way. I’ll take them.

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Extreme close ups that look abstract

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Um, maybe start by photographing your work environment?
Or ice / icicles / snow.
Build an igloo or a snowman, change its attire every day.
Also, people’s breath gets visible during the frosty season. I know you’re against taking pics of people, so maybe aim for cattle or dogs, they breathe too.
Also, chimneys.

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Specific technical exercises where you photograph the same thing from multiple angles, or edit them in different ways to give different vibes?

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Montages? With winter elements like leaves twigs ice water etc

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yes, close ups of birds or anything left alive…

This is Western Canada.

Everything is brown and dead. And the birds are 95% magpies now. Bleh.

What about abstract selfies?

I’m looking at your website now @shutterbug and wow I really love some of those photos. Really some of them speak a thousand words.

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Nice picture, a contrast to your summer pics

There is so much left like big lichen on stones,

What about architecture ?

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