Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Craig Yorke" <craig@...> wrote:
>
> Here is an excellent article on why ice and snow appear blue, 
> http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/blue-icebergs.shtml. In fact they 
> are not blue but light that passes through them is blue. So looking at a 
> snowfield with peaks and crests, similar to looking at waves on the ocean, 
> you will see light penetrating the snow caps and looking blue, because it is 
> blue. Besides that is the fact that we think cold when we think blue so blue 
> snow makes scientific and emotional sense.
> 
> Craig

If one is a scientific or documentary photographer, then it will be important to capture the color in snow as it exists. But if you see yourself as a fine artist (not meant to imply better or more noble) then you may be inclined to print snow any way you see fit, whether warm, cold, colored, tinted, or whatever. Granted, some may not care for your work, but its not about them, is it? And those who find they do care for your work, you will have made a connection at a very deep level that is infrequent and truly special.