Wonderful winter pictures

Winter can be soooo beautiful!! Seeing those frozen waters, trees and bushes covered with frozen snow, nature, it all takes my breath away. I tried to catch all this natural beauty in some pics. I hope I succeeded!
The pics are all taken in Ostend, behind the dunes.

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:eek: WoW looks Pretty all right == pretty darn cold..:D Yes I will agree its Mother Nature at her best.. great pics thanks

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That's it!! I hope it's not to much...; it was hard to choose from 110 pics............

Winter weather can be so brutal - yet it is so beautiful. Winter scenes have always been my favorite by far.
These pics capture all it's beauty, for sure.

What beautiful scenery, you got some wonderful pictures there. :) The people in post #2 (last one) seem to be very brave going out on the ice, it's looks quite thin. :eek:

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Originally Posted by Randi

The people in post #2 (last one) seem to be very brave going out on the ice, it's looks quite thin. :eek:

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The ice was 12cm thick! That is also the limit for getting permission to skate on the ice.

Hi Lut,
Thank you so much for your wonderful winter at its best pictures! I absolutely love winter and get some very strange reactions about it. At work they love it because if something needs to be carried to another building they know I'll be out the door taking the long route. How I'd love to be walking through those nature trails right about now.....

pro shots great visual outstanding feeling of being there, pictures chilled my goosebumps and warmed my heart crystal nature at its best.:)

Nice pictures. Looks like you captured some of my favorite winter scenes :).

i really enjoyed your pictures of Ostend Dunes reserve. It reminded me
of the dunes near Castricum. I have many fond memories of time spent in the dunes. i rode my bike there almost daily. We didn't have any Ice
storms while we were there but we had frozen ponds and canals everywhere. My first attempts at ice skating came on a frozen canal near the dunes. I borrowed a chair that a local kid was using for balance. It didn't help me much though. :D

Those are great pictures, you've really captured the beauty of the moment. You're really ggod with a camera, the pictures made me feel like I was there enjoying the scenery.

Lut, I'm shocked at the beauty of those pictures. The ice is breathtakingly beautiful!! Great job with the photography.:)

Wow, beautiful! I love the ones with the ducks.

BBrrrrrrr! That's refreshing... and beautiful too! :)