Shutter Mike Photography

Northern Arizona University (NAU) is in Flagstaff and is one of three state universities in Arizona.  It is the smaller of the three and the only one in the snowy North.  In winter, Northern Arizona can get a good amount of snow.  That has certainly been the case over the past few weeks as storm after storm dumped snow and rain on Arizona.

This was only my second attempt at photographing snow.  Living in the Phoenix area the opportunity does not present itself too often.  It is not an easy task.  For one, as you can see in this image, the color pallet is rather monochromatic.  In addition, as you can imagine, snow is very reflective.  It takes a lot of practice and trial and error to get the exposure correct on so much bright white.  But when done right a snowy landscape or snow covered anything can make a beautiful image.