The festive days are now behind us. The good resolutions for the New Year almost forgotten, the chocolate-induced stomach aches a distant memory. So what is then left in this period of the year?

The Dark days before Christmas, they say. But in fact after the festivities of Christmas and New Year (and for some Christmas again…), the days seem way darker, way colder and way more hostile to human life. You only have to put your head outside and feel the wind chill of –43 to know that now is not the time to go outside and enjoy the weather. But is it all that dark and cold?

A while back I went on a small trip to New York. I have already blogged about those trips but I still found a set of pictures that I thought might be interesting. Most of all because there is no sign of sub-zero temperatures.

Admit it, if you were to go to New York City, would you choose to go in winter? So here you have it, a few warm pictures to thaw those frozen trigger fingers…

When the weather gods decide to have some fun, they invite Old Man Winter for the ride. A cold mass of Arctic Air descended on Canada on December 28th. As a result, icy winds and blowing snow were coming down on the city as if to punish it for the nice warm summer we had had previously.

Or perhaps just to remind us of who is really in charge here. When the weather is extreme, I like to go outside and observe. What better to observe the weather with than a camera? Even better if you can get a friend to join you.

The shortest day of the year has passed, only to be seen next year again. When people not from Manitoba talk about the “horrors” of their winters, we tend to laugh, compared to what we go through. But when we talk among ourselves, then that same winter takes on a whole new level of cold. Interesting to see those points of view from outside.

While it is true that it is generally cold out here, we should not forget that there are also lots of views that this cold provides us with, not for anyone else in the world. Those views are what we are here for, photographers…