Winter sooc #3

Happy new year everyone, wish us for 2011 many great, stunning, amazing, funny, gorgeous, brillant, awesome pictures!

Since a week we have grey, misty, cold weather. I feel like out of opportunities for pictures outside... as I'm going there 5 mns a day! Oh well I know better days are coming :-)

This is the same tree as http://365project.org/parisouailleurs/365/2010-11-06. In winter it has this ???.... I don't know the name in English but in French is "kitten"!

[Dalia ElMaghraby]

Gorgeous :)

[Holly Grace]

So twisty... I looks like something out of a fairytale. Great lighting, I love it.

[Carole Mattingly]

Nice SOOC and DOF

[Mark Buehl]

Nice shot. Happy New Year!

[Laura Demko]

Lovely. Happy New Year!

[Femke]

Beautiful! That´s funny, we call them ´katjes´ too!!!

[Diana Moss]

Very nice picture of "catkins " happy new year

[Britt-Arnhild Lindland]

Yes, we also call them kittens, in Norwegian though, kattunger

[Marna]

Suttle and very nice! Corylus Avellana I believe! A kind of hazel and almost a sign of spring to have these kittens.

[jannydogs]

Great subject!

[elkehochban]

Love the DOF!

[Warren]

I can't wait either Helene, Happy New Year, now lets get shooting.

[Geertje K.]

Beautiful! Love the DOF and all the information on the name, also the ones from the other users!

[Henriette Sparkes]

Incredible shot.

[Allison Williams]

Bonne année a vous!

[Shannon Pitton]

Beautiful shot, catkins here, funny how the translations go.

[Melanie K]

Wow, I love the shapes in this!

[Dora Prokosh]

Bonne année a vous aussi Helene. Seems like you deserve a break in the weather that Europe has suffered from this winter. We are experincing unusally mild weather at this time but am sure there is cold and snow around the corner.

[Amanda]

Lovely shot! Such an interesting looking tree!

[Michelle Sheils]

Lovely shot Helene. Happy New Year to you too.

[Constance Brinkley]

Amazing shot. Love the DOF. Looking forward to more great photos from you. Happy New Year. This is a fav love the detail in the tree in this photo.

[Margaret Tryon]

Beautiful shot. Happy new year Helene.

[cglist]

Wonderful focus! Happy New Year!

[Jodie Atkinson]

Beautiful shot. Happy new year :)

[Kerri]

Beautiful

[Jan Flynn]

Curiously beautiful...

[Ana Valle]

That's beautiful.

[Jacob Beal]

Awesome, loving this shot. very milky Bokeh

[Cynthia C.]

So pretty! I love the shapes and the focus.

[Shaela Taylor]

great eye for the interesting lines!

[Elizabeth Howard]

Great shot! The twisty tree, the fuzzy catkins, the background bokeh...lovely!

[Carlita Edwardo]

well and warm thought your way for 2011

[Janet Hutnik]

Happy New Year!

[Krissy]

Gorgeous focus!

[Cherrill]

Oooh I have one of these! We call it Corkscrew Hazel and its lovely early catkins. Happy new Year!

[Susan McIntyre]

Very interesting, great shot.

[Suzie Townsend]

Very cool. I love all the curlie ques!

[Amanda Smith]

They, uh, kinda look like worms. I will try to see kittens....

[McKenzie Elizabeth]

Wow, interestingly beautiful.

[evan reininger]

Great shot! Focus is stunning!

[Lauren Dahlhauser]

woahh. this is so cool! nature really is amazing.

[Melissa Pike]

I loved your fall shot of this tree, and it's just as interesting in the winter! Bonne Annee, mon amie! (other than missing an accent, I hope that's right!)

[Helen Moss]

Such a pretty shot - I was intrigued that catkins had a similar name in different languages so looked it up and this is what I found.
The word catkin is derived from the Dutch katje, meaning "kitten", on account of the resemblance to a kitten's tail...
Happy New Year!

[Helene]

@helenmoss thank you so much Helen for this informations. Happy new year to you too

[Ira]

This is so beautiful!

[Deborah Cohen]

very very very nice

[Sarah D P]

Wow, love this one!!