Nightshooting

Saturday our weather warmed up a little -- the snow on the ground mostly melted. By the time I went to bed, late that night, it had started snowing again. There was more on the ground. I turned off all the lights in the house, one by one, and ended with the lights on the Christmas tree. As I stood at my front window looking outside, I realized I'd forgotten how light outside it can seem when there's snow out, even in the middle of the night. I grabbed my camera and tried to see if I could capture it.

The tree is across the street from me -- in front of my neighbor's house. I captured these images without flash, through my front window, using 1/4 second shutter speed on shutter priority settings, and without a tripod. Yes folks, this is handheld. At 12:45am. I like the color and contrast so much that these images are also unedited.