I have never been an avid photographer. However, a couple of months ago, I made up my mind to snap a picture on each side of a season as that would be a nice way of covering up my lack of photography skills!!!
The town I live in provided me with a great opportunity to do that and hence I went about my "time-lapse-adventure", if you could call it that! The seasons in the picture provide the contrast that this picture needs.
The picture is of the town of Houghton in the scenic Upper Peninsula (U.P.) of Michigan, USA where in the words of the townsfolk there exists two seasons viz. "Winter is coming" and "Winter is here!” The place boasts of a very high temperature spread with temperatures ranging from -38 F during the peak days of winter to 95 F during the peak days of summer (around -35 C to 35 C). This apparently is a result of a phenomenon unique to areas like this called, lake effect. (Check out Wikipedia’s entry on Lake effect for more information)
As of now, we have had our first snow fall on the 9th of October and status quo will be maintained until the first week of May 2010!
Same place different seasons !
Upper Peninsula of Michigan – summer 2009
Upper Peninsula of Michigan – Winter 2009
Let’s end up this article with a lovely poem by William Wordsworth.
Thought On The Seasons
By William Wordsworth
Flattered with promise of escape
From every hurtful blast,
Spring takes, O sprightly May! thy shape,
Her loveliest and her last.
Less fair is summer riding high
In fierce solstitial power,
Less fair than when a lenient sky
Brings on her parting hour.
When earth repays with golden sheaves
The labors of the plough,
And ripening fruits and forest leaves
All brighten on the bough;
What pensive beauty autumn shows,
Before she hears the sound
Of winter rushing in, to close
The emblematic round!
Such be our Spring, our Summer such;
So may our Autumn blend
With hoary Winter, and Life touch,
Through heaven-born hope, her end!


Sir, Either you stay in a very beautiful place or are a good photographer
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Its the place… there is nothing much a photographer has to do.. just point and click and the picturesque surroundings do the rest!
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oh it is already snow filled there!! so you guys probably miss the short autumn due to an early winter…BrRRrr..
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wow !! great photography and apt poem !
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