First Snow
Today is my 22nd birthday! It’s snowing outside right now, which is good, because I love snow and ever since I was little I have always felt like it should snow on my birthday. I don’t have many photographs of snow, because last winter was particularly warm so there wasn’t much of it to photograph, but I do have one photograph of snow that I particularly like.
“First Snow” was taken last winter in upstate New York where I spent the holiday with my boyfriend Chris and his family. Last year the month of December was probably the warmest I can remember (with temperatures in the 60s and 70s in New Jersey), so even in upstate New York there wasn’t much snow and none at all to be seen on Christmas day. A few days after Christmas, it finally snowed a little, and Chris and I went for a drive in his car to admire the falling beautiful white powder. On some backroads, we tried to photograph the light snow cover on the trees using a technique I like to call “drive-by-shooting.” Usually one of us drives while the other photographs out the window of the moving vehicle, using a backwards panning technique that creates a mix of still and blurred objects in the photo. Getting successful results using this method is largely trial and error, and most of the frames I end up with get deleted, but every once in a while a single image will really stand out. “First Snow” is one of those, and it’s my favorite image of snow to date.
Techs: Nikon D200, 17-35mm f/2.8, 1/30s, f/2.8, ISO 200. To order this print, purchase stock rights, or view other photos I have for sale, please visit my website at www.karipost.com.
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