Photos in the Snow

3/20/2025

Today is the first day of Spring, and the huge piles of snow we had just two weeks ago are completely gone. Thankfully I took advantage of the snow several times while we still had it.

Mice BBQ in the Snow

This set of photos was taken after the first of three snow storms when there wasn't a lot of snow yet. I like setting up my scenes in the raised garden as it's so much easier to set up and take photos. I positioned the door against the tree trunk, and sprinkled snow over the little trees I'd borrowed from Jan's Christmas village. Then I added the mice and their BBQ....

Then I got in close to take the photos...

Shovelling Snow

These photos were taken a few days later after another two storms had dumped a record amount of snow. I positioned the dolls on top of the snowbank beside our driveway in order to use forced perspective to make the dolls look like they were out in our neighbourhood....

Then I took the photos closer up, and straight at the doll's eye level....

Faded Roses

These photos were taken several weeks later after most of the huge piles of snow had melted. I set up the dolls in the upper garden.

Then I sat down on the bench to take the close up photos...

..change the doll's poses, and take more photos...

4 Comments

Dorothy

3/20/2025 11:43:55 am

Thanks for sharing your "secrets." It all looks so magical.

You really got a ton of snow!

Martha

3/20/2025 11:50:35 am

I love photos taken in the snow, but sometimes there's way too much.

Anyways, it's all gone now. Who knows if we will still get any more?

Donna

3/22/2025 05:52:11 am

You use forced perspective so well that your dolls look like real children! Seeing the "big picture", then seeing how you've cropped it is another lesson in photography.

The photo that shows Phairby on her back on a plate in the snow was so funny. The indignities one suffers to be a star 😄

Martha

3/22/2025 06:56:24 am

That's what forced perspective is all about - making the background look like the dolls belong in it.

I always use trays when bringing dolls and props outside. Saves a lot of trips back and forth, plus they provide a place to lay them. I only remembered to take a behind the scenes photo after I'd already started cleaning things up, and the dolls always get laid down.