More Snowy Shots Today

Beech Thicket in Snow (Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200, 4 mm, 1/160 sec at f/2.8, ISO 200 - heavily cropped)

Woke up to lots of snow, by our standards at least, so I took the Lumix FZ200 with me when I took the dogs out for a walk.  This handy little bridge camera has a huge 24x zoom, equivalent to 600 mm in DSLR terms apparently, and I have got some of my best bird photos with it.  Today though I took it mainly because it was snowing heavily and I didn't want to get the DSLR wet.  Hence, some of the pictures didn't really come out as panned.  I had forgotten how much more control you have with a DSLR and while these modern bridge cameras offer lots a useful options, etc.  Also, I am not sure that the focal lengths given in the caption make sense but I guess that is something to do with it being a bridge camera, not a DSLR?  I definitely prefer the DSLR.  Anyway, the above shot of the beech thicket was inspired by a photo of Ansel Adams, i think his was of an Aspen thicket and was a lot sharper, clearer, etc. but then it would be since his was taken by a large format field camera.  The other shots I got were of a lovely view down to road leading to our house with the old pine trees covered in snow and a close-up of rhododendron leaves covered in snow.  Nothing special but I have an essay to get on with so don't have time to head out specifically to get better photos, so these will have to do for today's effort.

Scots Pine in Snow (Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200, 14 mm, 1/250 sec at f/2.8, ISO 200)

Rhododendron Leaves in Snow (Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200, 32 mm, 1/50 sec at f/2.8, ISO 400)