Patterns in the Ice

Gallery: LandscapePosted March 17, 20112,133 views4 comments

I keep seeing things in this. It almost looks like a picture of earth from outer space...... There is snow on most of the lakes, but sometimes along the edge there is some bare ice, and that's what this is. Overflow and ice crystals made for interesting patterns and colors.
Beautiful day; cold, but sunny.

Comment welcome.
Canon 1DsMkII, 24-105 at 47 mm, f16, 1/250 sec, ISO 200, full frame no cropping, curves.

Comments

4 comments

Comment posted by Harley Goldman on March 17, 2011 at 12:37 PM

Nice abstract of colors and shapes.

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Comment posted by Tony Kuyper on March 17, 2011 at 9:21 PM

Wonderful textures and colors. My only thought is to crop the blues at the top as that way the center blues become more of a focal point for the image.

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Comment posted by Vance Gese on March 17, 2011 at 10:18 PM

This is outstanding. Love the pattern, textures, and the pastel colors. Think I too would crop a bit off the top as Tony suggested and a bit off the right hand side so as to focus attention more on the remarkable 'topography' of the center and left hand ice. Amazing how you found and have isolated an abstract from a large area of ice; we photographers so often focus more on ice patterns up close. Really does remind one of images from space, perhaps of the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. Beautiful work. Always enjoy seeing your images from Alaska.

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Comment posted by David Chauvin on March 19, 2011 at 11:52 AM

This view really does mess with the mind when it comes to scale.

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