Snow Photographs

I like it when it snows. It often makes for interesting even surreal-looking photographs. It often simplifies a composition. Where you might have a lot of distracting details in the foreground land, the snow will often cover those up, directing the viewer’s eyes toward the main subject. It also has a similar effect that shooting in black and white does, forcing one to concentrate more on composition than on dramatic, alluring color. It’s rather minimalistic in that way, adding a Zen-like quality to a subject that ight otherwise look overly cluttered. It can make a ragged picnic table top look clean and pristine. It can outline tree or plant branches giving a Sumi-e feel to a photograph. I shoot all kinds of subjects when it snows, from things as simple as bricks outlined in a slight coating of snow, to entire landscapes. There’s a meditative quality about a lot of snow photos, and there’s a meditative quality about walking through newly fallen snow, which has a dampening effect on sound, and realizing an area where you might normally hear car and truck traffic, is suddenly quiet. You realize there are fewer distractions and enjoy the solitude and simple things that the newly fallen snow offers.

Chimney Rock, Ghost Ranch, Northern New Mexico

Trees weighed down with wet snow, Coyote, Northern New Mexico

Chama River, Abiquiu Valley

Formations between Abiquiu and Ghost Ranch on Highway 84, Northern New Mexico

Cabin and plateaus, Ghost Ranch, Northern New Mexico. The cabin was used in the movie City Slickers

Santa Rosa de Lima church ruins, Abiquiu, New Mexico

Tim Seamon's cideer apple orchard with tractor, Abiquiu, New Mexico

Cerro Pedernal

Horses in Abiquiu field with light snow

Big Chief Gas Station, Zia Pueblo. The Big Chief has been used in a number of movies and TV shows. It was used in an episode of Breaking Bad.

Vintage truck outside Rising Moon Gallery in Abiquiu, NM. Rising Moon is no longer in business

Still life with cement bricks and light snow

Cattle in snow, Espanola, NM

Abiquiu Dam rest area

Trees, Espanola, NM

Boat launch dock, Abiquiu Dam

Espanola, NM

Snow on frozen lake surface, Abiquiu Dam

Sunrays and snow, Cabezon Peak, New Mexico

Fall colored tree in snow, Gallina, New Mexico

Santa Rosa de Lima church ruins, Abiquiu, NM

Bodes General Store, early morning snow, Abiquiu, NM

Highway 84 near Abiquiu, NM

Penitente morada, Abiquiu, NM

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