But along the way home, I had my Olympus XA with a roll of Kodak Tri-X. I shot it at 800 to push in development, but my developer (Kodak XTOL) had apparently gone off. My negatives were thin and I was worried, but the scans were usable.
As I've said many times already, I love shooting in crappy weather. The cool thing about snow is that it adds depth. There are lots of ways to add depth (the third dimension) to a two-dimensional picture, whether it's a painting or photo. You can use perspective, where close things are big and far things are small, or you can also use depth of field, where your subject is in focus, and everything near or far from it is blurry.
And then there's atmospheric perspective, where things in the distance become lower in contrast. Think of shooting in the fog -- as things get farther away, they get lighter as they fade into the mist, and as they get closer, they get darker. Snow is great for making this happen.
What I also love about snow is the footprints and tire tracks. Look at the parallel lines and swooping curves left by people and cars as they make their way to where they're going. Okay, most of it is nasty gray slush, but there's just so much texture in there. A lot of these photos would not be the same without the snow. Imagine if the following photo was just black tarmac:
Saul Leiter did a lot of amazing things with snow. He is a huge factor in why I always make sure to pack a camera when there's a storm coming. The photos in this post are B&W, but he was known for his color photography work. People usually associate snow and rain with gray, gray, gray. The sky is gray, the clouds are gray, the nasty slush is gray. However, Saul Leiter used it to emphasize what color there was left.
You should definitely check out his work. It will make you think differently about crappy weather.
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