Xplo Eristotle wrote:
> LightBeam wrote:
> 
>> Just a try with snow for a upcoming "merry-christmas-happy-new-year" 
>> image... comments, suggestion about the snow are welcome !
> 
> 
> Some of these people don't know what snow looks like, I think.. the 
> lighting is fine (maybe a little purplish but I won't complain). The 
> little sparkles look great.
> 
> Only complaint I'd make is the shape of the snow. It LOOKS fresh, but 
> fresh snow is usually smoother than this, unless the surface underneath 
> is seriously torn up.
> 
> Granted, someone suggested that kids had played in it and then a fresh 
> layer covered their tracks, and that's a plausible explanation.
> 
> -Xplo
The snow could be covering many kinds of uneven surface especially grass 
or clumped grass.  This snow has been exposed to a strong sun during the 
afternoon such that the uppermost of the layer has melted slightly 
leaving a crystaline crust.  That would also account for the slightly 
sunk in look that the smaller scale lacework of bumps gives to it.

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