Winter is already nearly monochromatic, so shooting in black and white feels very natural to me. It’s not quite the same leap to abstraction that it is during the warm, colorful summer months. However, the grain and soft focus of fast medium format film do render space in a unique way. The grain adds a rough texture and a sense of being disconnected from the present. I’ll often opt for shallow depth of field to push the eye through the frame, beyond the foreground barrier that pops up in many of these winter scenes. Finally, I see the many linear elements as unconscious gestures, suggesting a kind of animation or characterization of the inanimate subject matter.