I am San Diego this morning, for the San Diego Birding Festival, but I have to drop back a day to yesterday morning before I left Maine. Yesterday I shared a shot from soon after sunrise, with the heavy wet snow of winter storm G blanketing every limb of the trees in the backyard. As the sun rose higher some of the effects were too good not to try to catch. Here the sun is still low, well behind the trees. I was not sure what I could catch of the effect. In-camera HDR and a moderate telephoto setting on the zoom actually worked far better than I could have hoped for. This is a rather abstract image…but I love what the light is doing with the snow laden branches!

It is a race of course…that same sun on the trees is warming the branches and very soon, the snow in the upper branches will slide free and cascade down taking all the snow below it with it. By the time I got to the airport, about 9:30AM, a lot of snow on the trees was already gone

Canon SX50HS. In-camera HDR Mode. Recorded exif: f5.6 @ 1/200th @ ISO 80. Processed in Lightroom with my standard preset for intensity, clarity, and sharpness.