Winter storm

Winter is upon us, and I'm sorry I don't live in a place where there is more snow. I moved from California to Tennessee in 2004, and I had always wanted to photograph Yosemite in the snow. The problem is that when it does snow there, the snow melts quickly. It's really a matter of being in the right place at the right time. The winter before I moved, I watched the weather reports daily hoping for a snowstorm to reach the valley floor in Yosemite which is about 4000 feet in elevation. When I heard one was coming, I drove eight hours from Los Angeles to the park and arrived when it was raining. I checked into the lodge, went to sleep hoping against hope for a drop in temperature, and woke up a 5am. Still raining. I was grossly disappointed. I went back to bed and got up at 6 -- and everything was white! It was incredible. I rushed out and took pictures as fast as I could because I knew that just a couple of degrees warmer and everything would melt. I had about two hours of great shooting before the snow-laden trees started to drop their snow and the magic was gone. I shot this with a medium format film camera at the time: Mamiya RZ 67, 250mm lens, and Fujichrome Velvia 50 film. The settings were unrecorded, but knowing how I used to shoot in diffused light, they were probably 1/2 second at f/32.