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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape Photography Locations => Topic started by: LesPalenik on February 18, 2019, 12:05:03 pm

Title: Black Snow
Post by: LesPalenik on February 18, 2019, 12:05:03 pm

If photographing winter landscape in Kuzbass, don't compensate with a longer exposure as they told you. In this place, you'll have to shorten the exposure.

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A pall of eerie black snow has covered several towns in the Siberian region of Kuzbass, which is home to 2.6 million people and one of the world's largest coal fields.
According to the Guardian and the Siberian Times, the snow is tainted with toxic black coal dust that was released into the air from open coal pits and improperly maintained factories in the region.

https://www.livescience.com/64787-dont-eat-siberian-black-snow.html

Title: Re: Black Snow
Post by: Two23 on February 18, 2019, 01:54:04 pm

Often in late winter here the wind  blows the fine snow off the fields and into drifts, leaving the fields bare.  Subsequent winds (very windy here) blow fine black dirt onto the snow drifts.  The result is a stark  mosiac of black and white.


Kent in SD

Title: Re: Black Snow
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on February 18, 2019, 02:54:58 pm

Toxic?

It must be, ever since it was proclaimed the word of the year 2018.

Otherwise, our dear friends Russians, especially in Siberia, stand a much higher chance of dying of vodka than “toxic” snow.

Title: Re: Black Snow
Post by: LesPalenik on February 18, 2019, 04:35:14 pm

Kuzbass vodka is cleaner than snow and ice there. And it won't freeze.