Up here in the north, the winters can be challenging as the sun barely gets over the tree tops before going down again. Now, when it seems like we need to get used to not having any snow, it can really be utterly dark and gloomy as what used to be snow now tend to be rain. Even at ISO 800 and f 1.4, the shutter speed rarely gets over 1/200 second.
However, it can be somewhat fascinating – different shades of grey one could say...