Silver

Sometimes, early winter mornings are overwhelmed by silver and blue. It is those moments that you realize that even commercial Christmas-season decorations and color palettes are inspired by nature.

In motion, this surreal silver world looks like this:


And this macro image—as above, so below—is a testament to when you're inspired by Japanese sakura or plum trees in early spring, but all you have is snow!

This Week in Mobile

This week in smartphone photography: when it comes to winter Gray, it's not just the fog that swallowed the mountain, the lake, and the whole horizon, but the entirety of the seemingly never-ending snowfall. It covered all the animal tracks and left behind ten-foot sidewalks along with a bit of confusion.  

Black-and-White World (Mobile)

There are two most common expressions of winter in the Rocky Mountains. One involves the piercing-blue sky against the just-as-piercing white snow that always makes your friends ask whether you have "Photoshopped" the images you've captured, no-they-don't-believe-you. Cold weather makes the mountains look postcard-perfect, after all. The other is just around freezing, featuring varying degrees of visibility due to snow fog. But, much like the offensively immaculate sky requires little-to-no editing, neither does this latter variant. The entire world transforms into black and white—no desaturation filters needed.