Hopefully this is what the valley will look like in about 3 or 4 days as we have a lot of snow and ice scheduled to hit. This image was taken in 2023 after the only real winter weather we had in Arkansas for 2023. I was hoping to catch the sun on the icy coating in the trees, which I did.

For the image I used a Leica SL2, and 90-280 lens at approx 120mm. I used ISO 100 and took 2 sets of bracketed images in what I call a short pano. Using this method, I was able to later combine the files into a single image using Ptgui stitching software.

The final image shows the effects I was looking for, mainly to capture the sun on the icy trees in the foreground but also keep the dark skies over Pinnacle mountain which added quite a bit of nice contrast.