Originally posted by Canada_Rockies Unfortunately, RioRico, global warning does not keep the snow away. It moves it around, as the North American East coast is finding out.
Quite so. GW doesn't bring warmer weather, but more energetic weather. Bigger and badder storm systems and heat waves and cold waves and uncertainty -- and diminishing glaciers and icecaps. Antarctic winds bring snow to New South Wales in midsummer. Winter tornadoes drop into California. We better hope the oceanic circulation patterns don't collapse. What a pickle...
Meanwhile, I still hate snow. It's something that should be experienced from a safe remove, like rattlesnakes and political rallies. My kids love snowboarding. I prefer body-surfing. Still, I can understand that some pervs like to be in snow, even to photograph it. Aha! I just thought of a way to get good exposures! Use a P&S with SNOW mode. Shoot a scene. Check the EXIF data. Use the same settings on the dSLR. Bracket, of course. See, it's easy as cake! A piece of pie!
NOTE: I drove up from my 3500-foot home to the 7000-foot level below Carson Pass CA yesterday, to view deep drifts from the safe warm enclosure of an AWD car. Pretty, yes. And ice clouds, and sleet, and black ice on the road, and a few spin-outs by flatlanders who don't realize that CA Hwy 88 is NOT the Bayshore Freeway. No, I didn't shoot snow pictures, not in the sleet. Yes, I'm a wuss.
[/me considers the offer of a cheap week in Puerto Vallarta]