For New Years at the end of 2017, we spent the weekend in the North Kawarthas at Viamede Resort, on Stoney Lake. Despite the frigid temperatures (-24 to -18 Degrees C) we braved the outdoors on New Years Eve Day, stopping at Burleigh Falls, and I spent about an hour photographing the falls in their winter finery.
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It was a beautiful, sunny day, not a cloud in the sky, and the perfect lighting mid-morning to capture texture, sparkle and depth.
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The air was SO cold, that steam was rising off the fast running water, vapor coating rocks, reeds and branches along the rapids.
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