Shutterbug Photo of the Day

A major snowstorm is starting to pound the Northeast, streets are slick, traffic is snarled and the grocery stores are filled with testy shoppers. All of which is why Joaquin Urrutia’s peacefully pretty winter image is the perfect Shutterbug Photo of the Day today.

Urrutia captured it with a Canon 30D and a Sigma 18-200mm at 38mm, f/10 and 1/160 sec, ISO 100 and then converted it to grayscale in Photoshop.

“I took this picture in Ås, Norway on a day with fresh snow,” he writes. “I really love the snow's sandy texture and that beautiful undisturbed footprint pathway. Being a busy student town any fresh snow on this pathway is usually messy and dirty within the hour, I was lucky to catch it in this state.”

See a larger version of the image in Shutterbug's galleries here.

See more of Urrutia’s work here.

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We will select one Shutterbug Photo of the Day image every month to run as a full-page feature in the magazine.