I love winter.

I know.  You’re not supposed to love winter.  Summer days spent stretched on tropical sands are the ideal.  Tropical drinks, sand, waves…. But not for me.

I’m weird that way, but I find a special beauty in winter.  How it reduces everything to its barest of elements.  How it brings a simplicity and abstraction to the landscape.  How it introduces new, yet ephemeral forms to those willing to brave the cold and go looking.  I find my photographs are attempts to capture this reductive feature of the cold.  Besides, photography isn’t an indoor sport!

Of course, being a Ginger who burns at the drop of a hat might have something to do with my love of winter as well!

Lucas James is a fine art photographer based in Manchester, NH.  Anisotropic Images Photography.