Snowy Minnesota at night

At night, Minnesota is beautiful when sparkly snow is lazily falling. Tonight, I did some photo experiments in an attempt to capture my parents backyard at night. I didn't bring a tripod home with me for the holidays, so I stacked books and boxes as a makeshift fix. 

I took the images straight from the camera, only for the purposes of tracking practice with camera settings.

The first two images were set to f/10 aperture, 20 second exposure on a timer, and 200 ISO. The last image was set to f/4 aperture, 1/200 second exposure, and 1000 ISO.