[mfreg]

lputman.....thank you so much for the reply, I was startin' to get a complex..

..yes, I totally agree with you that the 1st one looks underexposed...I need to work on my exposure when shooting snow, I always lean toward underexposing so I don't blow out the highlights. When I think I'm exposing correctly the "brightness" of the snow always seems to obscure the subtle details. It's that slight "shadow" under the bottom fence rail that I don't want to lose and in the 2nd shot it's very difficult to see.

Can I ask you something, do you think using a fill flash would have helped here or would I have just gotten a lot of glare off of the surface of the snow ?

thanks again for taking the time to reply.

regards
mike