Haverford 2010
Once you start to explore making photographs and venture away from normal things get interesting. I had experimented with snow over the years but the big problem with snow is it's all the same. It's white. Like really white. Like homogenously white. And it's usually against a cloudy sky; which also is white. So photographing it you get lots of... white. I was walking with my mother on the Haverford campus one winter and noticed that the snow was more interesting when it was against something dark. It was blowing around a little and became much more visible against dark stuff. I took mom home and returned to the campus and shot for about 4 hours. It got progressively windier and as the sun began to set behind the trees the light interplay with shadow and snow began to show some really interesting results. Snow with shadow is interesting. Show blowing across a darkened background is much more visible. Snow with wind and setting sun is also cold. Over the 4 hours I ...