Gentle light on contoured snow

Gentle light on contoured snow


A lightly overcast sky washes over fresh, sparkling snow; the gentle play of light and shadow celebrates the graceful contours of a wind-sculpted snowdrift.

The thin cloud cover softens the mid-day sunlight and fills the shadows with a gentle gray light, creating a completely different feeling than the colder blue shadows of a clear sky. The overcast sky, combined with the high-key effect of the fresh new snow, creates a finely textured, smoothly graduated, almost monochrome image - like a finely crafted, cold-toned black-and-white print.