I'm afraid I think you have gone a bit far - they look somewhere between medium and well-done; in other words, a tad over cooked.
They almost look like sepia toned black and whites!
Yes I have gone a tad too far, and the difficult light so late in the afternoon didn't help.
Of course, snow shots in the winter countryside with its dull olive browns and greens laced with mud
are going to look a bit monochromatic in a sort of sepia when they are the only hues that poke through the snow! There is no doubt that my 'sheep shots' in the cyan that Rob pointed out, looked prettier in that colour, but that despite some distortion, the revision was much closer to what I saw with the eye. I reckon many folk associate snow with the blue cast so often present in representative photos, that it becomes their reality for such scenes - a clear case, long established, of life copying art!
Martyn, I think a little mischievously hinting at a prediliction for sheep, suggested I go and photograph 'em again using the custom WB! There was problem, and so instead I snapped the cottage in aperture priority, first using auto WB, then 'custom', thirdly 'shade', and finally using "Snow" in "SP" mode that offers no control over colour temperature. All the photographs that follow are straight out of the camera and have never been near PP software:
1. Auto WB
A1 by
wylyeangler, on Flickr
2. Custom WB - here my reference was virgin snow in the same light as the subject:
C1 by
wylyeangler, on Flickr
3. Shade WB - usually this works well for me on cloudy days and/or shade; not sure when snow's about.
S1 by
wylyeangler, on Flickr
4. SP mode "Snow" - perhaps for use in on sunlit snow.
SP Snow mode by
wylyeangler, on Flickr
To my eye, all the shots except number 2 are too 'blue'. Number 3, the WB choice of yesterday seems a bit greenish to me, and this might be what Rob picked up, even after some PP.
I shall admit that no. 2
is the least attractive, but to my eye is the most accurate and therefore the one I feel I should use (remember I'm no artist with a camera or anything else).
Now the "problem" with the sheep was that true to usual form, they did a runner soon after I got there, and so was not able to get comparative shots. However, I did get this one, taken using the custom WB on the suggestion of Martyn, and which I shall continue to use in similar conditions. I don't think the colour balance is widely different from my original photos revised in PP:
Custom 1 by
wylyeangler, on Flickr
Pete
I think his intention was to reply to both Linda and your response with the one quote however the quote button only copied your response (in the same way as I clicked quote on the last post and it's only copied your response). 
