I don't have any good snow photos since we rarely have snow but we did have a deep freeze last January and all the lakes, big and small, were frozen to some extent. I braved the cold to go to the waterway and take pictures of the ice and several birds cooperated for a few photos. This one was from a long way off using the 100 - 400 lens. The action went like this: the heron was on the ice trying to use it's beak to get something under the ice. A pelican spotted it and crash-landed and slid on the ice looking for food since nearly the whole lake was frozen and they were hungry. It landed right where the heron was which sent the heron squawking loudly into the air and it was still squawking as it flew off in this photo.
I first used Topaz Clean, then Topaz Adjust. I decided to have a little fun and added a blue-background snow texture, plus I added snow via the tutorial here http://goo.gl/6ElVi which I think is a very good one although I modified it a little. Then I added another texture with larger snow flakes and used the Photoshop snowflake shapes to add a few more. I used a snowy frame from PhotoFrame and put the image on top of it since the opening was too small and added a stroke and drop shadow with Layer styles.


