I don't know if it's nostalgia or what, but here's another image of the same vintage as the previous PAD - made a month later, Feb. '03, in a great winter for snow photography. Made with the same pocket sized 2MP point and shoot. I think it was images like this, made literally when I was first starting with photography, that got me hooked. I was fortunate to get some good hand held images. No one could have convinced me to carry an SLR, tripod, lenses, etc. back at the beginning. It's something one has to grow into, I think, and thus the good fortune of making some images early on that got me excited about the prospects. From here until an SLR was almost another year and a half.
I pulled these images and a few others from the archives to see what they'd look like now that I have better image editing software and know more of what I'm doing. It's been both fun and enlightening looking back in time and comparing before/after images. Too bad that they are of such low low resolution that they'd have to be printed pretty small.
PS - As I look at this longer, it seems to have more of a 3-D effect than most. Due to the three distinct layers? Especially with the layer which is nearer being the warmest color which as I recall advances toward you whereas cool (the woodsy background) colors recede.