Stills

I'm envious ;) your image looks so much friendlier than my snow shot. does snow really looks so different in Wales and other areas of UK?? or is it just the light?
 

It's the complexity that derives from oceanic weather systems meeting continental ones. The light plays its part but there is also the amount of drifting caused by wind strength, the temperature and whether (as for us in the last week or two) there is some sleet in amongst the snow. If the snow pattern is sufficiently large then everywhere will look alike but the weather in early March varied enormously across the country.
 

I have to confess that it does not look like snow to me, more like soap lather. Hence, I do not get a cold feeling looking at it. I think it might be, as John E said, that there is a lack of a pure white. The way the rushes are bending give a pleasing composition and there is a pattern in the picture.
 

This is definitely friendly snow. A nice sunny day. Warm enough to shoot through an open window without freezing. Clean snow (no traffic, no industry).

I've just checked the file. There are both blown highlights and blown shadows in this version. I played with moving the highlight slider, and yes, it does look more like snow and less like soap bubbles as I increase the amount of pure white (and lighten the tone of the mid point, of course). I guess that when I processed this, reality wasn't at the forefront of my mind. As John E suggests I was looking for the textures.

Oh, and John E - I'm going to have to work hard to get a plant in a shot that you can't name. These are in fact soft rushes. The sort that people used to make rush lights with. Our neighbour made the mistake of plowing this meadow field a few years back and the rushes immediately invaded and now outcompete the grass that he planted.
 

He should have redone the drainage when he ploughed as he obviously left damp conditions.
 

Have I signed in to meadowblogg by mistake?

I see a few peak whites but I don't see anything blown. I agree with John L that the impression of cold snow is lacking.

Although you were interested in the textures the fact that you have non-snow looking snow does confuse me.
 

Rex: Yes, sorry, I didn't put that very well. About 2% of the picture area is pure white and about 1% is pure black (on the file before compression). For this to look natural the 255 slider has to be moved down to about the 200 mark. But at that point it just looks like a load of wet snow :-)

John E: This is a valley on the west coast of the Highlands. Damp is what we have around here!