How snow looks

When cross country skiing, I often just have my Canon S95 camera in my pocket.  It is a good camera, and is quite small, so it fits in any pocket.  But when skiing, I don't often have the time or will power to set the camera right for every picture, I just use Program and adjust the exposure and  easy stuff to get a nice shot. 

The first picture below was taken with the S95 at around sunset, and it was pretty dark out.  Things go all blue at this time of day, which in other circumstances can make some really cool pics.  But here it just makes things, well, blue.

But it was really cold out, and I decided not to twiddle with the camera to work out a better  photo.

Tonight, however, I wanted to see how  the photo  would look with just an "auto adjustments" in my photo software program.  While the second photo could still use a bit of touch-up, it is much more like the scene actually looked like to the eye.  The snow is white and the sky is pretty close to what it looked like.

Two take away ideas.  First, ignore he cold and get the pic correct the first time in the camera, and second,  if the white snow ain't white, a simple auto function can make it so.

remaining trees after a log cut...in blue

remaining spruce trees in a log cut, with white snow