Hiking to the top of Huntsmans Ridge, these snow-covered trees were irresistible. Though it looks like I was using a polarizing filter, all I had was a UV filter on the lens. The sky was just that blue. I converted to black and white using the Channel Mixer in Photoshop.
This was one of my favorite photos of the day, and I had a lot of good ones. Of over five hundred photos shot, I posted only ten to my flickr pages. One of the many advantages of digital is the ability to compose the same scene many different ways, and choose the best once you get home and upload the photos to your computer.
I cropped up from the bottom on this photograph, mostly to improve the balance (rule of thirds), but also to remove some unnecessary foreground.
