Colour Temperature

I run a little photography club at the charity that I also work for to help and encourage folks to take better pictures. One way of doing that has been to introduce a little photo competition where the members choose the theme and then they all try and capture that idea in a photograph.  'Course that means that I have to step up to the plate as well, but I'm not allowed to actually enter the competition.  The chosen theme this time is "Winter", and the obvious subject material would be stuff like snow and ice... just one problem - we don't get a right lot of that here, so when we do get some you've gotta be quick :-).  Well, we got a fair old amount the other week so I braved the freezing temperatures to see what I could find and here is one example from that cold-nosed walk...

It was not exactly the best time of day as the light was failing and the cloud cover, albeit receding, negated the possibility of a glorious sunset (which was what I was after).  What struck me about the images was how "cold" they appeared despite the evening light, you could shiver just looking at them.  Perhaps "feeling cold" becomes even colder when the light is cool too?  It certainly felt that way when I was out there in the snow, puts a new perspective on the photographic technicality of "colour temperature" I can tell you! :-)