We had snow yesterday here in London. I’d quickly fashioned a camera ‘rain coat’ out of a sheet of sturdy plastic and a strip of elastic to hold it on the end of my chosen lens (24-120mm) to help prevent any moisture from entering the internal camera workings. Turned out it was a very sensible thing to do as it was chucking it down with snow and my camera would have been soaked without it. It was still difficult to deal with the amount of snow coming down as the flakes kept blowing into my lens hood. The park was also insanely busy so it didn’t feel appropriate to mess around with a tripod so the shots I took were all hand held. Despite these difficulties I took some shots that I’m very happy with, and I definitely learned some valuable lessons for the next time I go shooting in heavy snow.
