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White Swamp

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So that's how Canada tells us Canadians "Have a happy new year!". Quite a bright, welcoming sight if you ask me. This is actually a part of my garden. This was taken at 18 o'clock, and since it's night from 4 o'clock in Canada, I had to set the exposure to a very long time; so I laid down in the snow, put the camera in front of me, at the top of the snow hill I was lying on, and took photos from there. My camera suggested 8s@2.8, but that was way too bright; I tried various other settings, but here's my most satisfying one, 2s@2.8. In the end, I ended up lying for 10 minutes on the snow with nothing else than boots, jeans, a T-shirt, and a lab coat (was too lazy to take it off at school), so I came back in the house completely frozen, but with a photo! That's what matters. I'm hopefully still healthy, at least physically.
I thought about naming this "White Hills", but it's not really white... Then "swamp" came across my mind, and I chose it, for the overall green-ness of the extreme fog that night, the swamp-y aspect of this tree (Yes, it's a 2.5 meters tree right there in the middle, it's just mostly covered in snow), and the surreal aspect of the lights... I kept the word "white" because this deviation is (kind of) replacing Whiteness.
Image size
2816x2112px 2.75 MB
Make
Samsung Techwin
Model
<Digimax S600 / Kenox S600 / Digimax Cyber 630>
Shutter Speed
2/1 second
Aperture
F/2.8
Focal Length
6 mm
ISO Speed
50
Date Taken
Jan 7, 2008, 7:23:20 PM
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I saw this a long time ago, but I just now thought about commenting on it. It seems very...eerie. The lights add to the mysteriousness of it. I have one suggestion, but you said you don't want photo manipulation, but if you removed the stop sign and houses, it would make it look less civilized, and more creepy with all the weeping willows scattered about the landscape. But it is a good picture. 8.5/10.