Br-r-r-r- - can feel that cold creeping into my bones. Fantastic photo!

I like it. Kind of peaceful, kind of eerie, but definitely looks cold and quiet. Nice picture.

Tomorrow in Phoenix it will be 90. Quite a difference I'd say. Thanks for reminding us desert rats that snow really does happen in April. Good shot!

You have an excellent gallery and I do not mean to presume to teach down to you, but very often in Caedes photos, there's another photo hidden inside that sometimes the artist doesn't always see. It happens to all photographers. I hope you don't mind but I downloaded this one and did some messing around. I did so because your focus is excellent for a snow scene (always a difficult capture), the trees in the background ethereal, the composition is very artistic, and the feeling of intense cold is... well... intense. I know it well living in North Dakota. I adjusted it because this way it's just another good shot; the hidden one here is a real keeper. It's art. For the tree in the middle I cloned out that short stump attached to its right side, taking it down to the snow. There are so many verticals in this photo that it's an easy job to clone so it doesn't look cloned. Then I moved to the jagged stump on the far left and cloned that one down to the level of the cloned tree in the middle. I then cropped up from the bottom to take out those limbs lying in the snow, and in from the left, to just about where the jagged stump touches the right side of the tall tree next to it. Lastly I gave it a single tweak in Auto Levels (Photoshop) and "Smart Sharpen" and what remains could be hanging in any art gallery. All the emphasis has been shifted to the thin branches in the trees, the snow fog, and what is hidden in that fog. You can feel the snowy soft silence and hear the crack of frozen sap. I wish you could see it. Your "Dark Clouds" reminds me very much of this result but this photo is crisper. I think this one is a better shot because it doesn't fall victim to the foreshortened focus evident in the trees on the far left in "Dark Clouds." Here, the initial element that draws our eye are the dark trees in the left foreground and, since they are in a close cluster, they all have the same focus. The snow fog behind those first trees is soft enough to provide a natural and expected soft focus to the background. The composition is excellent as well, in those long branches in the middle tree looking to be reaching out to the trees in the fog, as though wanting to rescue them or call to them. This is a very spiritual photo and I'm amazed that so few people have seen and commented on it yet. If it were in the voting booth I would easily give it a 9. Thank you for sharing it and forgiving (hopefully) my personal manipulation of it.

-Nik