Canadian photographer Angela Boehm embraced the harsh beauty of a -30 degree Celsius winter, transforming it into a powerful metaphor for life in a stunning photographic project.
For many photographers, when the weather outside hits negative cold temperatures it’s a sign to stay indoors and hope that conditions improve. Angela Boehm from Saskatchewan , Canada was of the same mindset.
I found myself grumbling about yet another day I couldn’t photograph because of the biting cold — it was minus 30 degrees Celsius outside,” she tellsBut as Boehm sat in her car waiting for a gap to appear on the highway, she had an epiphany that there was a “quiet beauty” in the scene in front of her that had been there all along. “That moment sparked something, and I started to photograph it,” she adds. Boehm is from the prairies of southern Saskatchewan and knows all about harsh Canadian winters. She began to realize that minus 30 degrees Celsius winter landscapes are a metaphor for life, and she began her project, which has since turned into a book. “The frozen prairie landscapes, while a subject in their own right, serve as a powerful metaphor for the deeper themes the book explores:” she says. “What better environment to convey these ideas than a winter prairie storm?”, or its gradual fading, is represented by the snow obscuring the horizon, softening and blurring the scenes. And theis in the solitary tree — a steadfast survivor of countless storms in this unforgiving landscape.”Shooting in minus 30 degrees Celsius (minus 22 degrees Fahrenheit) brings a unique set of challenges: for example, it is easy to blow out the whites while also dealing with the darkness that can envelop the landscape during a storm. “I didn’t have a meter that could accurately read these conditions, so I had to rely solely on the histogram to figure the right exposures,” Boehm explains. “Once I had that dialled in it became fairly straightforward. The histogram for these images is essentially flat, with one pronounced peak in the whites. This presented unique difficulties in ensuring the subtle tonal details translated well onto the pag
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