Photoessay: Snow Drifts In Acros

The first snowfall of the season arrived a couple days ago. About two inches of the cold and fluffy white stuff accumulated on the grass. The kids loved waking up to a winter wonderland of sorts, with snow blanketing the neighborhood

For Utah this wasn’t anything significant, but the temperature remained cold and the snow didn’t melt. The wind kicked up yesterday and created some tiny snow drifts. I noticed that the low winter sun was creating some interesting shadows. It reminded me of sand dunes–miniature sand dunes, only made of snow.

I grabbed my Fujifilm X100F, attached my wide-angle conversion lens, and set the camera to my Acros Push-Process Film Simulation. I chose the wide-angle converter because I wanted to make the pictures more dramatic–I wanted to exaggerate the scene because it was such a small scale. I chose Acros because color was unimportant to the scene, and so black-and-white was the obvious decision. Besides, it would help with the abstract nature of the images.

Here are seven photographs of the tiny snow drifts that I captured yesterday:

38831562962_873e3eb294_z

White Hill – South Weber, UT – Fujifilm X100F

38831528002_755b9933e2_z

Barren Landscape – South Weber, UT – Fujifilm X100F

37975405025_dfdf4d533c_z

Plateau & Cliff – South Weber, UT – Fujifilm X100F

27085554859_5025d81b8d_z

Little Mound – South Weber, UT – Fujifilm X100F

27085589409_8933458f09_z

Hills & Valleys – South Weber, UT – Fujifilm X100F

23997152127_25978e330f_z

Sparse Vegetation – South Weber, UT – Fujifilm X100F

38861926301_69a695d2dd_z

Small Cliffs – South Weber, UT – Fujifilm X100F

 

Leave a Reply