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An old street in Quebec City after a snowstorm.

A street of Quebec City in February 2020.
A street of Quebec City in February 2020.

Winter photography holds great surprises during snowstorms. The picture above was taken on February 27, 2020, a day when Quebec City received between 30 and 35 centimeters of snow.

This little street in Quebec City still has its old wooden posts from which hang many electric wires. In several new neighborhoods, the wires are now buried and the lampposts are no longer made of wood.

The photographic composition did not require much effort, because everything attracted me to this traditional winter scene: the people, the diffused light at the end of the day, the horizon obscured by snow, the steeples in the background, the traditional architecture of buildings pressed against each other and the cars buried under the snow.

As for people, there was only the person shoveling her entrance when I took my first photo. Then a man walking his dog appeared in the distance. I took the photo when he was well in view but not in the foreground.

The scene was captured with a Canon 5DSr full-frame DSLR camera. Image processing software was then used to refine the final result.