Winter has been my favorite time of year ever since I was a child when I dreamed of someday living and traveling to the great snowy places on Earth. I love the pristine aesthetic and mesmerizing simplicity of the frozen transformation, and embrace travels through it to such an extent that the pursuit of winter weather alone has directed or even redirected many of my trips. It would be sufficient to say that much of my life was eventually in some way shaped by my love of all things cold, and fortunately now I get to spend as much time in the snow and ice as I want, traveling both hemisphere's each year. About half of all of my images were taken in winter but this gallery, more specifically, focuses on snowy and icy foregrounds and images in the theme focuses on the effects of the season!