Snowy shades of gray

St. Louis had a late-March snow yesterday, leading to some grumbling about the interruption of the long-anticipated Spring. But this was a wind-blown sticky snow that gave rise to some extraordinary photo opportunities. Many of these photos were color photos that looked as if they were taken with black and white film. For instance, this photo of a side entrance to the St. Louis Zoo.

zoo snow

My favorite photo, however was taken by my 10-year old daughter Charlotte, who gave me permission to post it here.  This is a completely unretouched photo of a statute in Forest Park.  It had a startling 2-D look, especially in this photo (click to enlarge):

statue half snowed
Photo by Charlotte Vieth
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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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  1. Avatar of Jim Razinha
    Jim Razinha

    Nice. Thanks. And to think I was complaining about the heat just yesterday! (It's a wee bit chillier here today…sans snow.)

  2. Avatar of Pete Vander Meulen
    Pete Vander Meulen

    Your daughter's photo is cool (and cold!). I keep coming back to it to do a "quick take" to see if my eyes catch the dimensions differently. Nope. It's as if she took an old, old….old box camera, slid open the shutter for a few seconds, then put the film in the darkroom. Nice.

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    Tim Hogan

    Erich, there a link on the Post website for you to froward the photos to and they'll publish them but, watch out for your daughter's amateur photographer status!

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