Figure 1 – Snowstorm at Dawn, February 15, 2015. (c) DE Wolf 2015.

It is dawn on the day after Valentine’s Day, February 15, 2015 and it is snowing like crazy, again.  I am looking out my back window at the birds frantically trying to find food to maintain their body temperatures.  I thought that I would try to capture the scene, the pale blueness everywhere and the gusts of wind causing the snow to swirl  The result is Figure 1.  I am hand holding without IS; so shooting with my lens resting against the window pane and at ISO 3200.  I try to use as long an exposure as possible to capture some of the snow trails. I am hoping that the tree leaning to the right gives a sense of opposition to the wind. I found that I preferred taking the image first to black and white and then adding a subtle amount of blue or cold toning.

Pretty soon, I fear that I will no longer be able to see outside the windows as the snow drifts up against.  There is a glorious dullness to the scene, a lack of contrast, and all is quiet because all sound is muffled by the snow-pack.  This is interrupted only by and the wind.

Canon T2i with EF70-200mm f/4L USM lens at 75 mm, ISO 3200, Aperture-Priority AE mode, 1/40th sec at f/9.0 with no exposure compensation.