We want to send out a big thank you to everyone who submitted a winter photograph for the March Storytelling Contest. There were so many great entries that choosing a winning photograph was difficult.

Congratulations to Joe Martz for having taken our winning photograph!

When asked about the story behind the photograph, Joe Martz shared:

“I remember it being a very mild day and we had a dose of hoar frost in the morning. That stuff is pretty sensitive to temperature so I knew it wouldn’t last very long at all so I just wandered around in the backyard with no coat on photographing it. I tried a bunch of different compositions and even used my macro lens to get real close to some of the detail. For the winning shot I purposefully used a shallow depth of field to give it sort of a surreal look. I thought the frost on the branches and thorns had an interesting look and the little bits of red added just a bit more interest to the photograph.”

If you want to check out more of Joe’s work, you can find him here. Or you can tweet him.