Snow Study 1 was accidental. Backcountry skiing outings were responsible for each of these images. Created as the changing effects of precipitation, temperature, humidity and wind combined to leave specific, unrepeated, unrepeatable signatures upon the landscape. There is magic in the sculptural capacity of snow - forming the most weightless, curvaceous, sensual pillows, and impenetrable sheets of the most toothsome hardpack and bulletproof ice. At first, the snow was studied only with the eyes of a skier. There was good snow or bad snow. Then the snow became a subject of photography, and the value judgements were lessened. Often, what would have been referred to as ‘bad snow’ was now immensely beautiful snow, rain and wind events notwithstanding.