I think I’ve now shared the images that best represent the shoot from last Friday. This last one is the entire formation of the one I posted yesterday featuring the globular ice build up. Linda mentioned the tubular shaped icicles and today emphasizes them along with the rounder forms and still a bit of the soft flow with a nice splash at the bottom.
Please click the image for a larger, brighter, and crisper view.
As much as I enjoy icicles and flowing water, I am hoping to find some more abstract patterns to share. The last few days, with their “warmer” temperatures, may have provided some thaw and refreeze creations…or not. 🙂
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Oh I very much admire this Steve! The variations in the ice are fascinating, and also the aspect of the frozen vs the fast. Awesome.
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Thank you, Liz. That well makes the frozen finger tips worth it. 🙂 I like the combination of solid and liquid or static and active along with all the shaping in these frozen images.
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Yup, this one’s a belter, Stephen! 👌 Best, Rob.
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Thank you, Rob. It was a good day.
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Nice Steve! Like the moving water which seems to highlight the frozen ice!
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When I can I like to have some soft water moving behind these ice sculptures.It does allow the solid image to pop a bit. Thanks, Reed.
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We’ve been hovering near 60 here! Everyone is out in shorts. Not me, I think that is overstating things a bit.
You are a master of capturing the different textures of ice, getting me to see so much more than I would otherwise.
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Funny that you mention shorts. We have several delivery folks for all the different companies who wear shorts even in the winter. Aside from it being cold outside, I don’t imagine the interiors of the trucks stay warm for very long as much as the doors get opened. Definitely more cold blooded than I am.
Thanks, Melissa. The images seem to come out better when I am photographing something I love.
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Love definitely comes through, doesn’t it?
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Yes it does. 🙂
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Ahhhhhhh…
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Glad that’s not followed by choo. 🙂
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Me too!
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This time it was “the soft flow with a nice splash at the bottom” that drew my attention. In the pareidolia department, I kind of see the ice as a shaggy bison.
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With its head lowered a bit. I see it too but not until you mentioned it. I did what I could to make the splash a bit more prominent. Thanks for noticing.
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Love the contrast between the ice and the movement of the water – but also grateful that it doesn’t get so cold here!
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I’ve always been less than fond of cold weather and this year has been pleasantly cold, not awfully cold with the exception of a few days. But, it’s only December. 🙂 Thanks, Ann.
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The globs, the tubes, and the pretty flow are great, but I really like the fourth element in this one: the wave-like forms at the bottom. They’re as delicate as the flow at the right, but they somehow seem even more dynamic; looking at them makes me feel as though I’m on the ocean.
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That splash was not my primary goal when composing this although I did want it to be part of the image. Once processing I decided to do some adjustments so it would stand out and, I think, complete the picture. I am glad that you enjoy that part also.
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Water is artistic year-round, but it seems to be at its best in winter, Steve. If you took daily photos of this creation, it would never look the same two days in a row.
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I agree, Tanja. Photographing water is one of my obsessions and ice is the only reason I willfully spend hours in the cold. We’re in a warm spell and most of the ice and snow have disappeared which is a temporary (I hope) disappointment.
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I hope you will not have seen the end of winter’s chill and artistic moments, Steve. ❄❄❄
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I am sure there is still plenty to come…or at least there always has been. Who knows what the future brings? 🙂
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