I love this picture, Jaime. You really make good use of the 500 mm lens. do you have more snow around it, or was it framed this close when you snapped it? I wonder how different processing might alter how the snow looks. Have you read the two threads on HDR. What's interesting is that they bring out micro detail and have the potential to add creatively to such areas as the snow shadowing and crystalline structure. I think this is a whoie new set of valid opportunities to explore. I'd love to see you try out the new program from Poland that Bart mentions
here.
Just wondering if this might possibly interest you. To me, there are things in that snow that might really help build this photograph to an especially impressive level, even beyond the immediately good response it brings now.
Asher