white sky backlighting

it is very hard to photograph snow on a white background. the only way to do it is wait for an overcast white sky, and then shoot the subject with the soft backlighting of the white sky so the snow appears ever-so slightly darker than the background.  furthermore, for the subject to be STILL-worthy, it means that there should be nothing else between the subject and the background–no clutter in other words. so in this case, i had to find a branch tip with no other branches, higher up, that would interfere with my branch. it’s tricky. the branches have to closes enough to the ground for me to photograph, but not have anything other branches interfering. this is probably too much information for you all. but it explains why i have relatively few photos of snow in STILL considering i live at a latitude with 4 months of snow every year.

bare spruce branches with snow