Yay, it has been snowing again. It is always nice when the winter comes with snow and not just cold temperatures. My SO thinks the same and celebrated the snow fall by building this snow lantern.

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I went out one evening while it was snowing to capture the snow before it melted away (which it did the day after). One of the things I photographed was the city's Christmas tree on the main town square. I took several photos with different exposure, and I ended up liking the over exposed ones the best. Especially when I cut the pictures to take out buildings and parts of the tree. The alterations made the tree turn into something a little more surreal.

And here is a photo on the whole tree, in case anybody was interested in seeing it.

Today I went out and took a couple of photographs using only the full moon as a light source. I have never done this before and I was surprised how good the photographs came out. Although many of them came out blurry. The shutter speed was set on 15 seconds (my cameras maximum). And to give you an idea of how dark it really was, I sometimes had to use a flashlight to find a button on my camera.

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