December brings short days and chilled evenings. But what compensates for shivering outside and inside alike (our place is not so well-insulated) is the
soft yellow lighting of the later afternoons, as well as the Christmas card dusk light of snow-covered scenes, such as the one on the right in Brookline, just outside of Boston.
The visual treats make the winter evenings of December a special time of the year.
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| Late afternoon waterscape. The Charles River near Watertown Square. |
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| A few weeks later, the Charles River is frozen and snow-covered, as seen through the wood near the river bank. |
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| Slightly pinkist hue of the early dusk on a snow-covered December evening along the Fresh Pond Parkway in Cambridge. |
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| Dusk sky above a snowy scene in Cambridge |
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| Even the stop lights show red and green for the coming Christmas season. |
For examples of the warm yellow lighting of late winter afternoons, see my post "
Beauty in Urban Industrial Photography."
