Winter photography offers both challenges and opportunities that don't exist in the other seasons. What would have been an otherwise uninteresting row of rocks along the riverbank becomes a study in textures and shadows when covered with snow.
The surface of the snow, after a number of sunny days and very cold nights, has many flat crystaline shapes which reflect the sun.
This shot was taken while snowshoeing along Anthracite Creek near Erickson Springs, between the Paonia dam and Kebler Pass in western Colorado.
