When I ran out to photograph the ice coated snow on Saturday there was a front moving through Kennebunk. The sky to the east was still showing some blue, as in yesterday’s shot, but the sky to the west was closed by one of the most impressive banks of cloud I have seen…especially over a sunny snowscape. This is Roger’s Pond, which is maintained in the winter as a skating rink by Kennebunk.

The image is processed as an HDR in Dynamic Photo HDR, but believe me, I have toned the sky down considerably to bring it in line with reality. The clouds have a bit more definition than the the pure Lightroom version, but this is closer to the way my eye saw it anyway.

And, of course, part of the drama is the low sun, warm and bright, casting long shadows across the pond, and lighting up the evergreens.

This is, pretty much, the way it looked! As a fellow Mainer noted in a comment on another post: “this Maine, the way life is supposed to be, no HDR needed.” (Mainers or frequent visitors will get the joke.)

Canon SX40HS at 24mm equivalent field of view. f4 @ 1/1250th @ ISO 160. Program with iContrast and –1/3EV exposure compensation.

Processed in Dynamic Photo HDR with custom tweaking of the tone map. Final processing (which included a Graduated Filter effect from the top to lighten the sky) and cropping slightly from the bottom to eliminate the road in Lightroom.