Picture of the day - February 3, 2007

A Backyard Winter Wonderland

On January 12 we received the first meaningful snowfall of the season here in the Meadowview, Virginia area, so Cheria and I took our cameras outside to take a few pictures. After we got back inside and warmed up a bit, we took a look at the images we had captured. We both agreed that the one of our snow-covered raccoon would make a nice "Picture of the Day", so I used it and we more or less forgot about the rest of them. Well, last night Cheria was browsing through her archived images when she noticed the one shown above. She liked it a lot, and when she showed it to me I liked it as well. It features the winter wonderland that we awoke to find in our back yard that morning. Since there was very little color in it anyway, I loaded it into Photoshop Elements and converted it to black and white. Thanks to the magic of digital cameras, Cheria and I take a lot of pictures - at least several hundred a week in fact. Actually, we take so many of them that really paying close attention to each and every one of them is almost impossible. That's why every once in a while we'll go back through our archives and find one that we really like, but missed the first time through...like the one featured above!   "Picture of the Day" archives             Submit a photo of your own!            Why I publish the "Picture of the Day"