Snow in the Cemetary

My final stop on our last (and likely very last) snow day was the Ft. Snelling Cemetery. It proved to be challenging.

White headstones and white snow – so where’s the contrast?

Only the shadow knows. I started out on a sloped section of the cemetery, so I could get the tree shadows falling across the snow and the headstones. I should have gone a little later in the day, when the sun was higher, but I didn’t know how long the sun would stay out or how long the meager snow cover would last. Next I tried to include some deep blue sky, which I tweaked to near black when I processed the images as black and white.

These three images turned out okay, but they didn’t really wow me.

I guess my standards for wow are going up. But I kept at it and in the end I did get some images that I’m really happy with. More to come.