To some extent, I often subtly tweak the colors a bit to correct back to get what I was taking a picture of when I scan the photos into the computer. I take pains to attempt to put back only what was lost--to as candidly as possible reconstruct the original scene faithfully, but I took a moderate amount of liberty with this one. The original photo was mostly white, and you could barely make out the very pale silhouettes of white pines in the distance. Cameras, at least the ones I have used, deal with snow-filled air significantly differently than the human eye, I am finding.

Though the actual picture was essentially a near complete failure, I liked the potential effect of it, if only I could find some way to draw out the features from the mostly nondescript, dim bluegray nothingness. Despite altering the colors rather dishonestly, it does look like something that could have happened, and sometimes does, and it also captures the objective essence of the events in the original--there was a last spot of sunlight being swallowed even as I watched, as a dark snowsquall blew in to obscure it with heavy snow. Even if the picture could not work as a realistic as possible portrayal, it does, I think, work well as an artistic one here.
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