The week winter arrived in Kent

Having seen the rest of the country experience snow at several points throughout the 2020-21 winter, I was beginning to give up hope that any would arrive in the South East. It’s hardly usual for us to see any and the last time was very possibly ‘Beast from the East’ that hit us as a blast of arctic air from Siberia in 2018, so you couldn’t blame me! Then the weather forecast started to look promising... was this really going to be Beast from the East 2?! As the week continued, snow was looking increasing promising for Sunday so I awoke on Sunday morning to eagerly look out of the window expecting to see a blanket of the white stuff... it was raining. Disappointed and assuming the forecast had got it all wrong and my hopes dashed, I found something else to occupy my time. When I next looked out, what was falling had turned white and the snow had arrived!

Quickly packing my camera bag, I ventured the short but precarious 13 minute car journey to Shoreham Woods. The trees looked exactly as I’d hoped with the snow being blown horizontally due to the strong wind and was clinging on to one side of the tree trunks. I’d been to Shoreham Woods the weekend before for a recce, as being in lockdown I was determined to find some local places to shoot. It was the perfect decision and below are the images I came away with. It was bitterly cold (feeling around -8 degrees) so I wasn’t out for long given my toes had lost all sense of being alive.









The snow/ice combination was still just about lingering the following Saturday (this Saturday just gone) so this time I went to Keston Common. Again a new location for me for landscape photography as previously it was the fauna and flora that had taken my attention with my macro lens. Another local find that I’m quite impressed with and looking forward to seeing what the other seasons bring!