fresh fallen snow

A pickleball and tennis court off the road in Big Sky, Montana caught my attention as all the net supports were black against the fresh fallen snow. I’d been watching this for days as the snow kept falling. Not a footprint to be found on this level wasteland. One day the sun came out and gave me what I was looking for, shadows. I found a vantage point and made lots of captures with both of my cameras. (Small Sony point and shoot, and my Sony A1) Preplanning the use of Loghtroom’s panoramic feature I shot methodically across the field, being careful to overlap enough so the program could stitch it all together. I cloned out all the little spots that just weren’t perfect. There was an area near the top of the frame where I want to believe a moose had left his/her tracks. Even though I do love seeing a moose, the tracks left were a real distraction.

This was one of those amazing sunlit days after it snowed all night. Out for a walk and a look see with my camera I spotted this house with the perfect, fresh fallen snow laying heavy on the roof and the boughs of the trees. Shooting my camera vertically I made a series of photographs with the intention of putting them together using Lightroom’s panoramic stitching algorithm. It worked quite nicely. Some small fill in places were handled easily in Photoshop, a little darkening of certain areas and lightening of others made this look great.