Thank you for the comments Ron, Adam, Shujert, Gary, Charlie!
Ron, I see what you mean about Sunday school! Great snow series!
Gary, you are spot on. I think the C-Sonnar renders best in low light situations.
Ryan, lovely as usual.
Rene, the second shot is awesome.
Charlie, nice work as usual. maybe you can try b/w for some of these shots?
Lots of character to photograph in your neck of the woods, Charlie! Love the cars you've found.
Some more snow:
Things got a bit more interesting as the sun got lower...
So you'd think with it being ~-10˚C and windy, I'd have the place to myself, but no, lots of people were out... snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, walking their dogs... even in big packs (there's a university on the other side of the woods). I felt like I had to work fast, not just because of the setting sun, but also to find the interesting snow formations before they were trampled. Just the act of exploring was also one of potentially ruining a scene. Not that big a deal in reality, just my mildly AR/perfectionist nature.
Thanks Jim. The colors in the last set are fairly true. The setting sun was casting very warm light while the blue shadow areas were lit by the blue sky. It's the usual warm/cold contrast that can be played with at sunset. The earlier shots are more color manipulated. I found that a true WB looked boring, and B&W rather too neutral, so let the tones go cold, but pulled back the saturation to keep it from looking too electric blue, which the files wanted to do after boosting the contrast of the scenes so much.
Quite the surreal look in the second... a blend between pinhole and night vision or aurora borealis!
90AA and 50 Lux ASPH.
A three shot view, left, center, right, with center looking east at the rising moon. There's definitely a similarity to sand dunes, though a lot more intricate. Taking the long/wide view across the ice, it was very neat (IMO) to see how the snow drifts looked like motionless waves. It would seem wind action can have a similar effect on water and snow...
I also had the legendary 1953 "Red Dial" update of Max Berek's Elmar 50/3.5 with me: rd50 by unoh7, on Flickr
I don't get perfect edges at infinity, but in this shot the tree on the right is well done
This lens will collapse into the M9
In the morning, at 9am, on an overcast day, I find it's necessary to pull back somewhat on the saturation — but I still love the M9 color rendition. In this shot, I liked the composition formed by the position of the people.
Leica M9-P | DR Summicron-50 | ISO 320 | f/8.0 | 1/350 Bangkok
Great snow series! 
The b/w conversions from it are superb! 
