There is no doubt about it. It is the grey season.
Here in the Pacific Northwest we don’t tend to talk about summerfallwinterspring. We talk about Summer — meaning the 4-6 weeks from August to mid September; and Winter, by which we mean the grey season, stretching from mid-Sept through the end of July.
My physicality and personality are not well adapted to this grey, yet somehow I keep being drawn to places with seasons like this. The damp “bay shine” of my childhood in the San Fransisco bay area, my adulthood in Seattle, three years spent in Vancouver BC, record-breaking winters in Copenhagen–I keep calling places with grey “home.”
Thankfully there is something new to add to my arsenal of vitamin D, the happy light, and a solid dose of antidepressants. Fellow Pacific coastie, Vivienne McMaster, is offering a beautiful online photography course this winter: Light Hunters, Getting Through the Grey.
Each Monday through the winter you’ll get a prompt and instructions on how to appraoch this different kind of light through the lens of your camera. An inspiring group of fellow photographers (newbies to pros) will gather ’round you in the private Flickr group, and the beauty of the pictures will carry you through.
Need help surviving the grey? Just click here to join the Light Hunters. ($39 CND for a season full of inspiration.) See you there, Magpie.
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