A Snowy Stream Meandering Through Minnesota

A Snowy Stream Meandering Through Minnesota, originally uploaded by Carl's Photography.

A Snowy Stream Meandering Through Minnesota.

While visiting my parents over in Albert Lea, I noticed these exceptionally tall drifts encasing this little stream. A great opportunity to capture that range of exposure with HDR! It was bright and sunny and since I don't have ND filters, I used an aperture of f/32 and ISO to try and achieve a slow enough shutter speed to get some smoothing of the water movements. Exposures of 1/15s, 1/4s, and 1 second used at f/32.

My wife thinks I took the processing too far (when I asked her if I had or not). I promptly replied that that was what I had intended! :-)