Contemplation

Right off the bat I want to make it clear that this was not the photo I had intended to take when I went out in the snow with my camera. Not even close, to be honest. I was really hoping to get an image with snowflakes swirling around, not unlike a few photos I have taken in past months wherein you can see raindrops falling (appearing as streaks across the frame) in front of or behind the subject. We don't get a lot of snow in Oklahoma, and on this particular day I happened to have my camera with me right as a bout of wintry mix started falling so I ran outside to capture what I could. I even brought my cheesy little travel tripod (aka World's Worst Tripod) with so I could get a half- or one-second exposure in order to capture the snowy streaks left by the flakes as they meandered towards the ground.

That was my idea, anyway. Let's just say it didn't exactly work out.

The fatal flaw in my plan, as you have probably guessed, is that snow is very very reflective. Even on an overcast da