Last Sunday we woke up so snow. It was surprisingly deep and I hardly need to tell you how excited my daughters were when they woke up and saw it.
Helen, my eldest child, made this little snowman. She called him Snowy.
As the snow melted during the day, she insisted in covering him in bubble wrap to insulate when. Alas, her efforts were unsuccessful and their were tears on Monday morning when she woke up to find a pile of wet bubble wrap, a carrot, twigs and stones where Snowy had once been.
The shutter speed was 1/60 of a second, aperture f5, focal length 35mm and ISO 100. I can’t deny it, this image has been edited to within an inch of its life as it was difficult to get Snowy’s body to stand out from the background. I’ve increased the exposure and used an effect new to me, focal colour, to bring Snowy to the foreground. You’ll notice he is in clour, but the background is in black and white. I’f be interested to know if you think it works?
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24 thoughts on “Introducing Snowy the Snowman”
Very cute! Bless her for trying to preserve him with bubble wrap. It’s always very sad when the snow melts. (Although we haven’t even had any, so no such problems for us!)
The bubble wrap idea was very clever. Who knows, maybe it gave him an extra hour or two?
What a perfect little snowman 🙂 we had about 7 snowflakes followed by about 7 hours of ‘do you wanna build a snowmaaaannn’ followed by ‘no, there is no snow.’ 🙂 I love that she tried to keep it that is so cute and a shame it didn’t work! If I had the money I’d get a walk in freezer to preserve our snowmen 🙂
Have a lovely Sunday!
Seems like few people actually experienced snow. Thankfully we escaped having to sing that song!
Awesome looking snowman, we didn’t really have enough snow to build one
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It was sort of perfect snow we had really. Enough to build a snowman but not enough to hand around until Monday and for the schools to close!
The edit works well, John. Snowy looks likes a slightly dishevelled Olaf! Sadly we didn’t get any snow here this week – maybe next time.
Yes, I’ll go with a slightly dishevelled Olaf. Still time for snow yet Tim, still time for snow yet!
I think it’s worked. I can’t tell that the background is in black and white.
Thanks Efra. Good to hear my editing is that subtle!
John I too am learning about increasing exposure, I need to experiment with it this week. Ah how sweet that she tried to wrap Snowy in bubble wrap, I love how excited kiddies get about snow, saying that I do too x
It was a very sweet thing to do. Alas, the Olaf effect was inevitable, as was the upset.
oh bless her for trying to preserve the snowman with bubble wrap
It was a valiant attempt. Maybe next year she’ll come up with something else?
How sweet that she wanted to try and insulate him! It is tricky taking photos in the snow, the editing had worked really well here x
Thanks Sara, was the the first time I’d tried that particular effect. Shooting something snowy with a snowy background was difficult.
What an awesome little snow man, but i am so jealous we got NO snow at all this year or the last, or the last….., Clio lending a helping hand for Coombe Mill
Two years without snow? That is quite sad, truth be told. There’s still time yet.
Well done with the edit – funnily enough I wrote a blog post about white on white and black on black last week. That is so cute that your girl tried to bubble wrap him! Love that his head seems to be crooked! #mysundayphoto
Ah, the crocked head may be my fault. I had to do a repair job!
I love the innocence of believing you can bubble wrap your snowman!
My children are so jealous of anyone who had snow – we are still waiting for ours and it doesn’t look like it’s on its way.
I hope the tears weren’t too prolonged
Oh it was quite an emotional time, truth be told. Here’s to the arrival of your snow!
Love the snowman and I quite like her thinking with the bubble wrap as an attempt to stop him melting. It is sad that they do have to melt – my two were trying to think of ways to stop their snowman melting (although admittedly “he needs a coat to keep him warm” was probably not the best plan!) – thankfully we didn’t have too many tears when he did melt.
Yeah, I see the problem with the “applying a coat” trick. Bit of an Olaf thing going on but it was obviously well meant!