Linda From Maine wrote:
Super cool! Please talk about how you got the brighter, larger flakes.
I have adapted some old uncoated and poorly corrected lenses to my DSLR bodies. This is an old wide angle that suffers from serious zonal aberrations, especially on the outer zones of the image. It recorded some bright light sources as "blobs" and shows flare and chromatic issues on the center of its field. The post processing here is just to restore some contrast and sharpness and exaggerate the color saturation. The snow was illuminated by street and security lighting on the bridge. Increasing the contrast whitened the snowflakes.