i love it
ive taken photos like this before
they are so effective

i like this one cos it reminded me very much of my recent night sky photos of cassioeia and the moon and at first glance i thought it must also have been a starfield

i was trying to get something similar with falling leaves the other day
but my timing was always off

this is a very FUN shot!!

i like this image, it doesnt snow where i live, so its nice to see lol

I have taken pics like this before , i like it, it takes me back to 1994 when i first experienced snow. & also looks a bit like the night sky, but ur idea with the falling leaves would look better. :~)

It works pretty well as a desktop, mostly for its simplicity. Obviously, the contrast is pretty good, which generally makes for sleek images. What is especially interesting is that the snow seems to take certain shapes rather than just being clumps or particles too small for the camera to easily detect.

The one large snow flake seems a bit distracting. It is no secret that the effects of the flash are extra evident, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing. What may be a bad thing is the fact that it is the only flake close to the camera. If all were far away or if more were close, it wouldn't look quite so unnatural. A lens hood might keep them all far away, but I have yet to aquire one myself.

One last thing: The cleaner these pictures are, the more professional they appear. This picture doesn't have a real problem with this, but you may want to remember this trick for future reference. One relatively easy way to clean up images like this is to use a diffuse glow, which will require a photo-editing program. Enter the diffuse glow control panel for the picture you want to edit and apply a super low intensity to a super defined area while not adding any grain. Basically, adjust the sliders so it does little more than make the whites more pure looking. Now make the picture a negative, save it as something different, and close it. Re-open it using the same program (but yes, closing it was important to drop the steps) and go back in to the diffuse glow menu. Set it midly intensive over a rather defined area with no grain. When you click apply, it will make the backdrop (night sky in this case) pure white and grain free. Now invert the image once again to make it normal and save it as something different. That is really about it.