Photo: Davin Brandt
An award-winning photo captures delicate frost in downtown White Bear Lake.
Some photographs are candid; some are planned. In the case of this image by Davin Brandt, it was a bit of both. A week before the photographer captured Downtown on the corner of Fourth Street and Highway 61, the area had experienced similar hoarfrost conditions. “You’ve got to get on it right away in the morning because it doesn’t stick around,” Brandt says. With the composition already in mind, Brandt made his way downtown when the hoarfrost returned one winter morning. “The hoarfrost against that blue sky—that’s intoxicating,” Brandt says. “… It’s like a sunset; it doesn’t last.”
Photographer: Davin Brandt
Title: Downtown
Equipment: Nikon D850 with Nikkor 24–70mm lens
Category: Places
Award: First Place
