Frozen Fire

Gallery: LandscapePosted January 8, 20152,757 views25 comments

Did what I could to avoid that much used title of "Fire & Ice". I wanted to combine the ice with an additional element to make it more interesting. I waited for some warm light to fall upon the frozen lake. Since I wasn’t too interested in shooting the grand landscape at this location, it was no hardship to spend a bit of time setting up a telephoto frame. Been a while since I've had to save at 50% to get the file size down to fit.

Canon 5DMkIII, 70-200mm, f32

Comments

25 comments

Comment posted by Ian Cameron on January 8, 2015 at 7:05 AM

Astonishing Kah Kit. The bubbles I have seen before though they are very nice, but the rings of fire are a real revelation. Is this distorted highlights from a sunset sky or tangential sunlight hitting ice that isn't quite flat. It sounds like the latter but it is very odd and definitely a unique look.

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Comment posted by Navin Sarma on January 8, 2015 at 8:38 AM

That's spectacular. Love the abstract shape of the magentas reflected in the ice. Also the contrasting shapes of the large circular bubbles, horizontal "blobs" of reflected light, and the perpendicular, tiny lines air bubbles(?) all work very well together

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Comment posted by Luke Ormand on January 8, 2015 at 9:24 AM

Looks like a frozen monet. Beautiful vision here

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Comment posted by Harley Goldman on January 8, 2015 at 10:02 AM

Excellent! Great shapes and colors. This is very surreal.

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Comment posted by Nancy Lea Sandy on January 8, 2015 at 10:20 AM

Beautiful combination of colors and the layered effect in the ice. Stunning abstract

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Comment posted by Bill Chambers on January 8, 2015 at 10:45 AM

Holy Moly!!! This is phenomenal Kah Kit! This far surpasses the quality it takes to be a superior image; this is in a league of its own. So beautiful.

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Comment posted by Roel Wijtmans on January 8, 2015 at 11:23 AM

That is one unique photo, excellent stuff! I wonder how the "rings of fire" are formed, because flat ice wouldn't cause that, so I guess the ice wasn't perfectly flat??

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Comment posted by gary phillips on January 8, 2015 at 11:25 AM

Wow, another outstanding image, KK..Love the direction you took to come up with such a fascinating abstract comp. Really nice.

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Comment posted by Rick Turner on January 8, 2015 at 11:41 AM

Sweet imagination here and the results are indeed Monet like.

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Comment posted by Kory Lidstrom on January 8, 2015 at 12:39 PM

Nice work. It's a fine abstract. I'm assuming this is Abraham Lake, so I'm very glad you didn't shoot the landscape shot that we've seen about a bazillion times now.

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Comment posted by Prashant Khapane on January 8, 2015 at 1:14 PM

SPECTACULAR.

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Comment posted by Lorna Taylor on January 8, 2015 at 2:54 PM

Beautiful !

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Comment posted by Wayne Jones on January 8, 2015 at 3:52 PM

Wow, this would be a cool shot with just the cool color elements (accidental choice of words, I swear), but your idea to wait for and capture those hot colors just puts this in a class by itself. It is fascinating to realize that this could be a capture of a moment of reality rather than an equally amazing product of a painter's imagination.

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Comment posted by Nick Bristol on January 8, 2015 at 5:43 PM

This is wonderful. Everything here is working beautifully together.. Great vision and technique by you, Kah!

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on January 8, 2015 at 6:44 PM

The subtleness combines well with all of the details to make this one to look at for a long time.

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Comment posted by Aaron Feinberg on January 8, 2015 at 7:09 PM

Really cool and still not quite sure what's going on. Just reflected light from the mtn? Great stuff.

aF

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Comment posted by Bill Fach on January 8, 2015 at 9:59 PM

Kah Kit: Really well seen, conceived and captured. The larger version is just a delight and I could explore it for hours. This would make a wonderful large print. Most excellent.>=))>

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Comment posted by Alberto Patiño on January 8, 2015 at 10:59 PM

An impressionist painting - truly gorgeous!

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Comment posted by Stuart Williams on January 9, 2015 at 12:22 AM

YOU'RE on fire! some gorgeous images of late. monet would love you for this image (and, damn, i typed that and then scrolled down to see others had had the same impression - if you'll forgive the pun!).

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Comment posted by Patricia Brundage on January 9, 2015 at 4:30 PM

Magical! Unique lighting on this subject. Glad you waited for the warm light.

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Comment posted by Nathan Apodaca on January 9, 2015 at 7:36 PM

Bullseye... Amazing capture. I will be viewing this more than once!

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Comment posted by Mark Pelton on January 9, 2015 at 11:24 PM

don't really know what this is, but some really cool patterns and shapes. I can see the bubbles, but don't really understand the reddish colors.

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Comment posted by Preston Birdwell on January 11, 2015 at 6:22 PM

This is very cool, and really different. You might consider a crop of some of the blue from the very top, but this works nicely as is. I love the reds and the blues, along with all the interesting textures.

--P

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Comment posted by Kah Kit Yoong on January 11, 2015 at 10:38 PM

Thanks all. This is the frozen surface of Abraham Lake, known for the methane bubbles in winter. The red is reflected sunset light.

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Comment posted by Mark Metternich on January 14, 2015 at 11:19 PM

Damn!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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