Like many of you, I love to photograph ice. I thought I’d pretty much seen all the “basics” of ice—new, old, stream, river, lake, on and on—but several weeks ago a friend alerted me to ice that had formed on a nearby reservoir when the water then dropped 18". The results were mind boggling, everything from patterns that started underwater and then froze above, in wind, to sheets of ice stuck on top of weeds that had become so thin due to sublimation that it literally flapped in the breezes. It was what, back in the day, I would have termed a “10 roll day.”
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Sony 6000, mostly at about 80-100mm and handheld. Adjustments in LR to tone curves, some cropping, and some sharpening.
Wow! These are great, John! I could see them displayed at an art gallery. I love all the different patterns and textures and abstractness of it all. Great work!
Holy Cow, John. Great of you to actually spot these. I likely would have walked right by these kicking myself later for having left behind such sweet treasures. All are interesting and quite unique. In many of these, you have images inside of images. Incredible. I think my favorite is the warm one with the see through crack running through it. Love these. Thanks for sharing! Very inspiring.
Thanks both David and Vanessa and glad you enjoyed them. As I looked over the Best of 2022, I realized how often I had been uninspired so finding this ice and having a “10-roll day” was a true joy and a good kick in the butt to just keep on pushing out and following my instincts (and tips from others!). In my career teaching people to use thermal imaging equipment I would always try to bring people back to the basics of simple thermal physics—I called it “thinking thermally”—and this ice cause ME to go back to many of those basics to understand what the heck was going on. Not sure I got it all but am still amazed by all that seemed to be involved. Onward to more ice…
Wow! That’s really interesting. I don’t know if I ever saw ice hanging on to branches like that! It almost looks like what you would scrape off of a window. Must have been amazing to see that in person!
