Defined by Shadows

For photographers, snow alters the scenery in dramatic ways.  The normal array of available colors vanish under white.  Accumulations soon soften and then bury details.  Daytime skies seem shockingly blue and the clouds pass by quickly.  Most importantly, with normal colors unavailable, photographs tend to be defined by shadows—defined by what is white and what is not white.

Today, as illustration, I am posting a couple of photographs of my sister’s back deck.  I purposely shot through the screen for one image.  Both images were captured with my smarter-than-me-phone.

  

--Mitchell Hegman