Snow forms

[John R]

A couple of shots from the first heavy snowfall at the Badlands of Caledon, just north of Toronto. Not really a Badlands, just a small denuded area that has the appearance of small hoodoos and hills. In the right light and without footprints, it can look spectacular in the snow.

JMR

[degrub]

i like the tones in the first image, and the composition in the second. The two shadow peaks form a nice draw for the eye. The first image is very soothing to me.

Frank

[francois]

John,
I like the first image very much. To me, the bluish soft hues make me think to a flower close-up and I can't find a better description than degrub's word: soothing.

[wolfnowl]

I also appreciate the forms and tone of the first one much more than the second.

Mike.

[John R]

Thanks for the comments everyone. Well, I have a whole series taken that day, and I myslef like the first best, but that just the way it is. I had a lot of trouble exposing the whites and was fooled by the camera viewer. Next time I will trust the old rule, overexpose for white, underexpose for blacks. But it sure looked too bright and too white when I did overexpose in the field. Perhaps our eyes get fooled when looking from the viewer to the landscape.

JMR

[John R]

Added a third image if anyone is interested. A lone tree amid hills of snow. Not much of a tree, but with the radiating subtle lines in the snow, it survives and comes to life. I think it is more abstract-like and minimalist, than landscape, though I suppose it is both.

JMR

[SJ.Butel]

That last one really gets me, thank you for uploading!

[Jeremy Roussak]

Added a third image if anyone is interested. A lone tree amid hills of snow. Not much of a tree, but with the radiating subtle lines in the snow, it survives and comes to life. I think it is more abstract-like and minimalist, than landscape, though I suppose it is both.

JMR

It's the best of a very good three, I think. The scale is impossible to determine, which is pleasing.

Jeremy

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

It's the best of a very good three, I think. The scale is impossible to determine, which is pleasing.

Jeremy

+1.
Eric