Black & white photograph. A wooden bridge crosses a dark stream, leading to a snowy forest beyond. The bridge is covered in a thin layer of snow, and the footprints of a person and a dog lead across it.

More from last week’s snow.

When you get that kind of snow, falling on bare trees and bushes, everything turns into outlines. It’s all contrast.

And in the right environment, you’re basically walking through… a black & white photo.

(All photos taken with a Nikon Z7 II + Nikon Z 24-70mm f2.8 S)

Black & white photograph. A wooden bridge crosses a dark stream, leading to a snowy forest beyond. The bridge is covered in a thin layer of snow, and the footprints of a person and a dog lead across it.
Black & white photograph. Grasses, covered in a layer of snow on their tops, bend down towards the surface of a small pond. Small twigs and patches of grass, also coated in snow, poke up from the water. In the middle distance a log lies across the frame, its top snow-covered. Beyond it, a forest of dark bare trees.
Black & white photograph. A path leads between thin twiggy branches, down to a pond. Everything is coated in a thin layer of snow, making the dark limbs of the trees stand out.
Black & white photograph. Trees bend over a stream, creating an arched opening. Fallen trunks lie in the water in the foreground. Everything is coated in a layer of snow.