Dress warm
To say you are truly “ready” for winter in Newfoundland is something of a misnomer.
While planning any sort of outdoor activity you must take special care to study the forecast and dress accordingly. The temperature can regularly hover down around -10C, but will also go above 0C. If a range as wide as this was a total variation for the season, that would be easy to deal with. Unfortunately, in this province, that sort of range can happen within one day.
That’s why shooting around here – outside and in winter – is a difficult task. You have to “dress warm” and hope that anyone shooting with you does the same. It’s also good to keep in mind that your camera, like many mechanical / electronic devices, can be sensitive to temperature. More specifically, while it may not have a particular problem with any mildly cold or warm environment, it certainly will take issue with rapid switching between extremes – from the warm interior of a car to the frigidly cold wind-swept cliff overlooking the North Atlantic, for example.
Angelika was prepared. She also seems to have overcome a challenge that I’ve been struggling with for some time – she’s found the proper glove for cold weather photography. There also appears to be a “post shooting” ritual of tightly clutching a hot beverage.
