stone slab wall in the cumbrian lake district

There were beautiful foggy snowy scenes in the Cumbrian lake district,

northern england this weekend. these walls of stone slabs are pretty

extraordinary....

Any comments much appreciated.

All I've done to the original image is to slightly adjust the contrast

and balance - no other maniupation at all!

thanks

Hugo

I like the composition, but it's awfully dark.  This is what a winter scene looks like right at sunrise or sunset on a foggy day (in fact, I experienced this today).  If this wasn't at sunrise or sunset, then perhaps you should do some more adjustments so the snow looks more white than gray.  If you do that, more detail will appear in the wall.  If it was at sunrise or sunset, then I agree, the exposure is right on.

Psychologically snow is white.

Jerry

hello Stephen, many thanks for stopping by and your helpful comment! it was dusk but you're right that it could be a little brighter. there is almost no texture at all in the snow as it was thick and freshly fallen. what a spectacular day it was!

i'll upload a brighter version (but not too bright as i'd like it to remain true to what i saw).

thanks for visiting, Jerry, and for the brighter image. it's definitely an improvement.

however, i beg to differ about the colour of snow - so here is hugo being somewhat argumental!

at least for my psychology, snow can be anything but white at times.

similarly one could say that psychologically water is colourless (or even blue) but many images show water that is not colourless (or blue) as it reflects the colours that are above it, or in some cases below it. when i took this image in grey fog at dusk the snow reflected this grey colour and was grey.

perhaps it's a PN psychology you're referring to? ;-)

Hugo, you're right that the color of snow can change depending on the time of day, and if you photographed this near dusk, it's close to how you saw it.  The camera, of course, could have made it look as it did near mid-day.  This is the on-going debate:  should we present a photograph that will have the greatest aesthetic appeal to the largest number of viewers, or should we present a photograph that is close to what our eyes saw and that best tells the story and conveys the feelings we had at the time?  Sometimes a title can convey to the viewer your experiences and/or your intentions, but on the other hand some viewers don't want any title so they can remain "free" to react and interpret the photograph entirely on their own without guidance or influence from the photographer.  So do we present the world as we have experienced it and which conveys our particular story, or do we present the world in a way that lets viewers read their own story into it and describe what it means to them personally.  Both are worthy goals, and both seem to me to be diametrically opposed to each other.  In other words, you can't win.