Photography by Mark Hopkins

The Secret World of Frost

When New England’s nighttime winter tempera­tures dip below a frigid 10 degrees, magical worlds sometimes emerge from nowhere to make fleeting appearances on windowpanes. The lower the mercury plummets, the wilder and more fascinating their landscapes become.

 The photographs in this series were taken during severe cold spells over several winters in an upstairs bedroom of a Massachusetts home.  Most of them were shot shortly after dawn, before the warming sun dissolved the delicate details into droplets of dew.  The bright light appearing in a few  is the awakening sun peeking through distant trees.