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Image of the Week: Snow Angel, Middlebury, Vermont

It's dang cold up here in Vermont. The other morning, I woke up to a thermometer that registered -17°F (-27°C). The snow keeps piling up, the salt is building up on my car and the front step, and deadly daggers of ice plummet from the rooftops everywhere you walk.

Don't get me wrong -- winter is great. Skiing and snowball fights are fun. Fresh snow and ice can be truly beautiful. It's the day-to-day coping with the ugly side of winter that wears me down.

So, when I try to create stunning wintertime imagery, I have to make sure I'm in the right mood for it. Also, timing is everything: I wait for a fresh dump of snow or an icestorm to transform the landscape into that archetypal "Winter Wonderland".

But depicting the beauty and wonder of winter isn't restricted to landscape photography. Sometimes, it's about capturing the right moment or expression of those enjoying it.

This week's image is of Ali, the daughter of a good friend, making her first Snow Angel. The act by itself is worthy of a photograph, but to me it's her expression -- her look of complete, blissful abandon -- that really makes the image.

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Technical Data

Snow Angel, Middlebury, Vermont was photographed with a Nikon D300 and a Nikkor 17-35mm ƒ/2.8 lens. The ISO 200 exposure was 1/1000 second at ƒ/4.

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Snow Angel, Middlebury, Vermont. Click on image to view larger.

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Snow Angel, Middlebury, Vermont is available as an 11"x14" archival pigment print, matted to fit an 16"x20" frame. Each print is signed by the photographer and is accompanied by a display, care, and conservation document detailing the process behind the photograph.
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