Snow

It has been snowing on and off for the last week. As I have spent most of my life in warmer climes, this is the most snow I have ever seen (barring the times when I have been more than 2000 metres above sea level). There are parts of the DCU campus that have been covered by snow for an entire week.

I took advantage of this fact to test my new camera. It's a very new camera, so I'm not quite used to it yet. Also, it is a standard digital point and shoot camera, so the quality of the pictures is not comparable to the output of a DSLR or similar.

Many of the photos came out rather over-exposed, which is to be expected really. Several others were somewhat out of focus, which I attribute to experimentation with the various settings. Here are a few shots taken in Albert College Park which I quite like, even if the composition is less than perfect...



I tried to get more of a reflection out of the water on this one, but it was starting to snow quite heavily again (the mistiness in the background is snow) and I didn't want to hang out for too long. I made the mistake of walking through the puddle on my way back. It was much deeper than I expected and I plunged into it up to my ankle. I foolishly chose to press on - the entire section of path visible in this photo is waterlogged and I was thoroughly soaked by the time I got to the end of it.

I adjusted the colours of this one in photoshop because the original was a little under-exposed. I would have taken more care with the shot, but my feet were numb from their icy bath after the previous photograph and I just wanted to get home! As a result, I think the photo is a little redder than I would like it to be. It seems my photoshop skills are even worse than my photography skills!