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Srimaya,
Thanks for the sharing your pictures.
I noticed the snow doesn’t look white. It looks kinda gray in color. Specially the first picture. I think it has to do with the sensor thinking that the image is over exposed. The camera thinks that the image is too white so it darkens the image. And your white snow got turned in to gray snow to compensate for the over exposure. All cameras work the same way.

I’m no expert by any means. I’m just an enthusiast or amateur at any level. So I just offer my humble opinion. This are some of the things that I would suggest.
1) Take a meter in a shaded area of where you want to take the picture. (using the single spot meter in your camera).
2)Then over expose by ev+1. Once you have changed the ev+1 your meter is going to be off.. Do not change it. because you’ve already took a meter of the shaded area. And this is going to anticipate the automatic adjustment that the camera is going to make. And this is when your white snow got turned gray.
3) recompose the shot (framing your subject), focus, then take the shot.
4)check the image. if it still gray take another meter reading from a different area or readjust ev+2
I hope this helps you. I hope I didn’t confused you. And if someone else can explain it better please do so.

Love, Monkey

Thank you Oksana for the explanation,
And yes on the Gray Card. I actually carry collapsible one in my bag at all times that I bought on Amazon and it has a white target in the center for easy focusing. Plus it has two other color besides Gray(it has black and white).

Love, Monkey