What's Your Favorite Season For Photos?

Fall. I love the crisp air and the clear skies and the color of the leaves.

each has its advantages, but i would say summer because the most things are open, no snow and its warm around june or so. fall is nice because of the color, winter is nice if you live a country like area, fall and winter usually has no bugs so that's good. spring is pretty but only week to week. but my allergies are a 100% that season, so it's a 50-50 for that.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

If one lives, or has lived in a climate with essentially one climate you miss the seasons. There are many things I like about all four, but I suppose Spring is my favorite. It has the cache of renewal after a long winter.

I also have allergy problems, but usually it's during the changes in the season. Once the change has settled, I can breathe fine.

Definitely summer for me, everything nature, plants and flowers is bright and cheerful!

For me, it's spring. Just when it doesn't seem possible that winter will ever end, the grass turns green and trees start to bud. Seeing the days get longer is nice, too.

I thought I loved the snow until I lived in New Jersey for 2 years. Shoveling a foot of snow off the driveway every other day got really old really fast, and since snow is common there, I couldn't even go out and collect a little bit of money for it.

It depends on where I am. Out west autumn, north east autumn. Deep south winter because it's not disgustingly humid.

Snow never bothered me when I lived up north. If you grow up with it you learn how to deal with it or you leave.

Joshua, I can understand that. I've lived in heat my entire life, so it bothered me a little more. I'll never forget Hurricane Sandy when our power was off for 4 weeks, and we had to chip the ice of our shower-head when we needed to take a shower.

I love Fall - all the colorful leaves and crisp air. I live in FL so I take a trip up north to get my fix! Then get home fast before the snow....

I don't like winter at all, so any other season is great and I have allergies year round so that doesn't matter either except that I am highly allergic to dust, so winter just about does me in and that's when I am the crankiest LOL

LOL Debbie, I'm pretty sure that's why everyone gets sick in the winter, most people begin to "hibernate" during that time of year.

Love them all... but late Winter and Spring is when green begins to appear in Southern California rural areas. Lots of green going on right now since we finally had a little substantial rain!

Fall, colors are best for landscapes.

I live in Florida, I guess we have NO Season, always sunshine, I love it

I love the late Autumn & pre Spring for the dry crunchy vegetation , & stark palette.
Bare tree silhouettes against old weather beaten barns - speaks to me.

The other seasons are for pure pleasure, & can make for great captures - but soul stirring is weathered and worn for me.

I like all the seasons in New England, but if I had to choose a favorite...it would be Fall with the red, orange and yellow landscape. Followed by the pastels of Spring. I love color, and those are the two most colorful seasons.

It depends. Do you want full flowing water falls and roaring rapids? Spring is the best. Do you want massive amounts of color. Shoot in the fall. Winter brings with it unique and challenging lighting qualities. How can you exploit dead and withered? It can be done. Winter can sometimes bring very complimentary lighting conditions for shooting abandoned buildings and vehicles.

Favorite time to shoot is on cool crisp spring or autumn evenings in the city. When the humidity is low and the air is still.

Winter, but it's harder to get out then. I almost froze my toes off on the local hiking trail last winter when we had record cold and snowfall (I live 60 miles north of Detroit, right across the river from Canada).

If someone could invent a warm bubble you could walk around in when it's 2 degrees and snowy out, I would love it.

The problems that happened around Hurricane Sandy were primaraly manmade rather then from nature. The "We don't have to plan for hurricanes here" mentality that so many had at government and corporate (utility) levels was laughable throughout the region, especially since there had been one only 14 months before.

Hands down Autumn. Always has been and always will be. My favorite time of year so maybe that has something to do with it. :)

I prefer fall to shoot in with winter a close second. When I first started shooting railroads, I loved summer because you have, I thought, 12+ hours of shooting. But a bad thing happens in the mid day of summer afternoons. Two things, really. It gets hot as hell in the Carolinas but also the sun shines straight down on everything casting high sun shadows everywhere. Many days by the time the sun is angled right again, it's so hot and hazy here that it doesn't matter.

In winter, you can shoot all day and never worry about high sun.

Definitely any season in Hawaii. The clouds are always changing. Winter here in the northwest is great for moody shots and skeletal tree shapes.

For outside photography here in New England, anything but mud season when the snow has melted but the trees are still asleep. Always like fall - crisp air, colorful leaves, early sunsets.

Spring and fall. Winter is mundane, nothing ever changes. Same for summer. In Spring and Autumn there are changes in the landscape almost on a daily basis, new flowers emerging or leaves changing color.

Until I started a '365 project' in February of last year, I used to think that winter is boring. But if you look closer, each season has its rhythms, textures and moods. I think these are especially apparent during the change of seasons but are definitely present all the time - you just need to be aware of it.

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Spring is definitely my favorite time of year for photography. That's when nature seems to be bursting with life with trees and flowers coming to life and baby animals being born. Everything seems so hopeful, fresh and new.

Joshua, regarding Sandy, I live in New Jersey in a neighborhood that was struck hard by Sandy (My house, among scores of others in our neighborhood got flooded). I am really taken aback by your comment that "the problems caused by Sandy was primarily manmade." I ask this sincerely: Did you live on the coast in NJ when this happened? I assure you you are only partially correct. Hurricane (not "superstorm" as it was called), Sandy was immensely responsible for the damage along the coast. Thousands and thousands and thousands in the back bay area were devastated. That doesn't mean "man" doesn't have a responsibility. Why people choose to build houses on top of the ocean will always mystify me. But lets call it what it was: A Natural Disaster.

Where the human disaster comes in is how irresponsible FEMA, insurance companies, and state and local municipalities have been in helping hard working tax payers get back in their houses. Over 2 years later, and still multiple thousands not in their primary residences yet.

Oh, and to answer the OP, (sorry about to Off-topic rebuttal!)... I am loving winter! The sky has great lighting not seen in any other season, it reflects magnificently off the water here, AND as an extra bonus, no throngs of tourists to crowd the photos I am taking... It literally feels like I have the entire jersey shore to myself during the winter season!

Fall season is the prettiest for me. Sunny fall days are wonderful, not to warm anymore and love the colorful leaves.

Very early spring when things are so new and fresh - and fall - who can go wrong with fall, the warmth and colors:)