Snow Hits The New Forest

Well the New Year is a here and what a start. Heavy snow covers the entire UK for a change and not just London and northern areas with high elevation. Unfortunately all of the roads in the New Forest and pretty much impassible (or have been) severely restricting the number of locations I can get to.

I've only managed to get out to Hatchets pond for two separate days shooting where the entire lake is frozen solid. People have (stupidly) been out walking on the ice despite the Police removing them frequently, and have even had their young kids out on it to. How dumb can you get? Hatchets pond is, in places, in excess of 6 metres deep for christ sake.

Anyway there was some gorgeous light on the first night I was there and I successfully bagged the shot I had intended on shooting - a white horse in the snow with nice cold sunset colours in the sky - along with a few gull shots and even a wagtail that kept returning. Laying in the snow for hours on end didn't seem to effect me and I wasn't really that cold either. Worrying.

The second trip was yesterday evening when I met up with Tim for a sunset shoot there. We got some ok shots but nothing truly spectacular as the snow had all been ruined by people and snow marred the effect of the frozen lake where silly people had decided to sit there lobbing snowballs at it trying to break the ice and then trouncing all of the lake itself, scuffing the ice and leaving snow trails and foot prints etc.

Hopefully we will have more snow soon to replenish the bits that are melting and i'll be able to get out and about to get some landscape work done and hopefully some deer in the snow.

Hope everyone had a good Christmas and New Year.

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