I'm very happy to share that my picture was selected as an overall winner of the 2013 SNOW Media Showcase hosted by the Blue Mountain Resort and SBC Ski and Snowboard Resort Guide. Thank you everyone for the votes and all your support. I'm extremely pleased to be awarded among so many great photographers!. 

Below is the winning picture which was captured on Whistler Mountain, BC in December 2011 on a perfect pow day. :)
   

After a very long break I finally set up my home studio again. For that occasion I upgraded my two soft boxes with new fluorescent bulbs. I was previously using regular tungsten bulbs. They were heating up very quickly and would stop working in the middle of the shoots. I decided to fix this issue and bought the strongest fluorescent bulbs available in a local hardware store - 42W. Henry's offers 85W fluorescent bulbs, but they didn't have any in stock. I'm glad it happened cause it saved me a lot of money :).

New bulbs made such a huge difference. The light is white, not yellow and the bulbs are not heating up at all.  I had them on for good three hours without any problems.  They are also much brighter than my previous set and on top of that they are energy efficient. 

Below are my favorite shots of that night with Peter Zielinski as a model.