June Photo Challenge - Entries (Post them here)

[Photo Challenge]

The topic this month is: "Winter".

This thread is only for posting your entries and any comments you'd like to make about your own photo.
If you would like to comment on other entries please use the comments thread.
As usual, one entry per person and the image must be your own work.
Normal forum rules and image size applies.

The image doesn't necessarily have to have been taken this month but we do encourage you to go out and enjoy the challenge.

The winner of the poll, which will be run at the end of the month, will get to choose next month's topic.

Good luck and good shooting.

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[Octane]

Not taken this month, but, what can you do? :)

Larger version available here (http://users.tpg.com.au/octane2/md.html).

H

[iceman]

Taken in early May, on a very cold morning :)

The rocks and sea convey the cold to me, but hey, you might feel toasty looking at it. What do I know :)

[supernova1965]

Playing around with some ice

[zardos123]

Mt hotham about 6pm -3 deg c open fires and schnapps awesome
regards brad:D

[Inmykombi]

This was taken last Winter in August on an observing weekend near Barrington NSW.
It was so cold one morning that I scraped these words into the ice on my vans windscreen.

Very Very cold and temps. got down to well below zero while camping.

Observing was worth it though.
I was the " last man standing" on night when temp. got down to zero degrees.

Thx for looking.

[Analog6]

Mine is a montage of old shots. On the last weekend of May 2000, when we were living in Canberra, I was watching the radar and Thredbo site while I was at work and there was big snow coming. So we rang the cat sitter (only has 1 cat then!) and the Thredbo YHA and after work Friday we took off for the snow!

It turned out to be one of the biggest dumps ever, over 50cm in 2 days and follow up snow. The journey there was hair raising with a speeding driver smashing into an NRMA truck while the guy was fitting chains to a car just in front of us – luckily we had pulled over to fit OUR chains – the lady and the NRMA man had to jump for their lives.

We could not leave until the Tuesday and had to miss 2 days work (we were really sad at that!).

These shots were takenby my partner Warwick on the Saturday morning (I was abed with a migraine) with a small point and shoot camera and I only have these low res scans left, I can’t find the prints or negs. But it was so spectacular and it is that time of the year so I thought I’d try this montage effect.

[Markell]

From Ashwood, Melbourne

[graham.hobart]

Sorry, posted it in wrong place
Anyhoo, view from my deck about 5pm two weeks ago, Panasonic Lumix point and press. Friends were around with their baby so there were two four month old girls making the carpet pay and vibrating the walls.
Outside the Sun had just set and there was peace, but some ominousity in the sky me thinks.
I like the sinister nature of the oppressive clouds, with the almost gum tree colour of the horizon lenticulars......so read on dot dot dot
Nhaaaaaaah! Nhaaaahhhh hah!
Graham

[acropolite]

Calm after the Storm, an opportunistic shot taken 9/6/09 . I was on the way back from work and saw this to the east at sunset,

Taken 3 blocks from Launcestons city centre, in the backgound is Mt Barrow covered with the first snow of winter, the South esk river in the forground. The winds are still whipping over the mountain top driving snow up in to the air although it's not apparent in this downsized version.

[Liz]

Bit hard to get a winter shot in Townsville, so here is one taken in ZellAm See in Austria, where I stayed for a few beautiful days, 3 years ago.
This was the view from my window, but it was very chilly indeed, though no snow at ground level.
They have a beautiful lake there that I walked around (12km), what a wonderful experience. I left when it was zero dg, and returned when it was 2 dg, but had warmed up a bit. :D

[sheeny]

Taken today 21/6/11. Took this on a drive in the snow after work.

Al.

[firstlight]

Don't have any snow in sub-tropical Brisbane, but nothing says winter to me more than the Pecan shedding golden leaves in the afternoon sunlight.

[suma126]

windy cold day

[rcheshire]

The winter night sky...

[jenchris]

Taken camping up in Goomburra
Sorry it wasn't in June. But it was winter!

[bartman]

Winter always firetrucks the power bill.....hehehe just wanted to say 'firetruck' really.....