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I had to plough through knee deep snow along the frozen shores of Llyn Ogwen in Snowdonia to get this photo of the majestic peak of Pen-Yr-Olwen on the far shore.
What drew me to this spot was the ice encrusted grasses by the lake shore, but to emphasise the grass in this this shot guess what, I actually had to lie face down in the snow much to the amusement of my wife Liz who was watching from the road about 2 metres above me.
Never mind though, even in Snowdonia it's rare to get this much snow and ice at lower levels, so it was well worth a bit of discomfort to take a photo of it that was a bit better composed than a 'safe' shot from the road would have been.
That hot coffee from the van just in the layby was very welcome though!
Filename - mountain snow 01.jpg
Camera - Canon 5D
Lens - 24-105mm zoom @ 24mm
Exposure - 1/30 sec @ f16, ISO200
Location - Llyn Ogwen, Snowdonia, North Wales
This image - 533x800px JPEG
Conversion - ACR & PS-CS2
Comments - +1 stop exposure compensation applied due to bright snow
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