Chez Mojo Photo - - Snow and Trees

Vacations are always excellent opportunities to get back in touch with your hobbies--particularly photography--and as such I've been reading a lot about photography again. As with many endeavors, one has to overcome plateaus in order to improve and to remain interested. My newest challenge is to stop and look around, figure out why a scene "feels" picture-worthy, and then try to convey that in a picture. This snow-covered landscape was particularly challenging because, as with most big, open spaces, your first instinct is to go wide-angle and show everything, but this rarely works. In this instance I tried zooming in on plants and finding scenes that included all the textures that made the scene so lovely, but I couldn't convey just how blue the sky looked with the warm light from the low-hanging sun (up at 9, down at 14.30--peaks about 10 degrees off the horizon), fresh snow, and cold, clear air. I think this photo almost does it.