Snow

Sometimes it is difficult to know what to take a picture of when it snows.  Everything can look so bright and so much prettier, you are almost spoilt for choice, but, often, they don’t come out as expected.

I have taken lots of pictures in the snow, but some of my more successful ones have been of simple objects such as this fallen leaf that was almost hidden, and, judging by the tyre tracks was mainly unnoticed.

The other problem with taking pictures of snow is the blue cast that the pictures take on due to the ultra violet reflections.  It is therefore worth sorting out the white balance whilst processing.

The thing I liked about this picture was the simplicity combined with the different textures caused by the tyre and footprints as well as the clean snow.

The photo was taken using a 70-300mm zoom lens (because I had been taking some other pictures), at ISO400, f/6.3, 1/125secs.