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02.22.2023 Wordless Winter Waterfall Wednesday
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Stephen Gingold Nature Photography Blog 
What picturesque formations. Does this view go back some years, like several of your recent ice pictures?
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It’s from 2015. Usually if you click the picture you’ll see the file name which most often includes the date. It takes days or even weeks to create that amount of ice. At least that’s the case around here where we don’t often get below zero.
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A wonderful “fairytale” scene.
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Thanks, Robert!
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This is absolutely one of the best frozen waterfall pictures I’ve ever seen.
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Thanks once more. Quite a nice thing to say!
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Beautiful– I miss the ice show this year, but not the temps!
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It’s a love/hate relationship, Eliza. Thanks!
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Very beautiful capture!
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Thank you!
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Another beautiful shot from your archives!
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Thank you, Peter!
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I like this even more than your previous photo, because of the variety of forms. It reminds me of a stage: the unfrozen water as the stage itself, with ice ‘curtains’ on either side and icy scenery as a backdrop. It looks ready for winter to put on quite a performance.
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I posted a couple from this shoot 8 years ago. I titled it “The hanging garden of ice” which you saw then also. They could pass for a stage curtain, couldn’t they? I found that cornice on the right mesmerizing and the doorway on the left ominous.
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It makes an amazing stage – for a performance by water-sprites maybe? Beautiful!
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Ha! I met a woman at Whole Foods who showed me some phone pictures of her dancing in front of a frozen waterfall. Not sure she’d want to do a repeat performance. 🙂
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I wonder if she turned blue?!
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Didn’t look it but maybe after a little more blood loss she turned much paler.
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That’s beautiful. I love all the draping and soft silky cascading water.
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I wish that I lived around the corner from this so I could have done a daily series as it grew. Thanks, Deborah!
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I know that feeling!
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So beautiful. Such an amazing display!
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Chaos never looked so good. 🙂 Thanks, Lynette!
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Wild, Steve!! It’s beautifully framed. Maybe a little ice is coming your way but I doubt it will look like this, right?
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Unless the cold front lingers for several days likely not, Lynn. This doesn’t happen overnight, so to speak. Our forecast is just for a couple of nights at temps in the single or teen numbers. There will be ice forming though so I hope o steel myself and get out there…as long as there is no wind accompanying the cold. Thanks!
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Right, I know a build-up like this isn’t achieved overnight. We’ve had extremely cold temps for here which resulted in some interesting ice nearby where water falls and drips down a mossy cliff. In places, the ice formed round, bulbous shapes – maybe from drips accumulating. I had fun taking pictures and I thought of you. They didn’t turn out as well as yours and I imagined myself asking you what else I could do in processing. I’m not willing to use a tripod and my micro 4/3rds camera isn’t the best in low light, which is normal here in winter. Boy, did it get cold out there, too! I tried to work some magic in Lightroom. 🙂
I hope you’ll have some luck tomorrow!
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I didn’t make it out for photography this morning but whatever happened will still be there tomorrow as our temperatures will not rise above freezing today. Low light photography is a challenge handheld. And even more so in the cold. In Lightroom you can use the masking tools to separate the object of your desire from the rest. Work some magic on it. Then click to Duplicate and Reverse the mask and work the background to make the subject pop a bit. Of course the selection is not always perfect so some adds might need to be done.
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Thanks, Steve. Yes, I use select subject and then invert pretty often, or when I think it will help. I haven’t done that with any of the ice photos yet. I need to master the finer points of selections, the add, subtract, etc. I’m wrestling with myself about going back today. It’s cold enough for the ice to still be there but…that’s the problem, it’s cold!! 😉
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Oh, I understand about the cold, Lynn. I am much less enthusiastic this year. Not sure if it is just a passing thing or I’ve lost my winter mojo. 🙂
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Nice Steve! The blue tone really makes it look COLD! Enjoyed seeing t!
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It was verrrrry coldddd. 🙂 Thanks, Reed!
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