I love the way frost grows at the edges of open water.
Small Pool of Water
Category: Macro
Drawn Back To Ice
OK, I have to post some more from the trip to Abraham Lake. The ice is too cool to keep to myself.
Ode to Ice
Oh cracked ice, will I ever get tired of you? (I’ll post something NOT Abraham Lake or ice related tomorrow—promise)
Cracked Ice
The ice at Preacher’s Point was full of small cracks – I’m guessing because it was melting – and these caught the light wonderfully. This is a top-down view of similar cracks to the ones you saw in an edge view a few days ago.
Cracked Ice Patterns
Today’s an abstract day: Ice near Preacher’s Point on Abraham Lake.
Icy Cross Section
A cross-section of ice at Preacher’s Point on Abraham Lake.
Frost Spikes on River Ice
Frost patterns on ice near the Bow River.
Frost Beside Flowing Water
Water, frost and ice in Johnston Canyon. What? No, I didn’t say anything about Georgia O’Keefe.
Melting Ice on a Tamarack Branch
Another shot from the same day (as the last pic of the day). It was a warm December day and a fresh snowfall was melting and re-freezing into ice on the Tamarack trees (Larix Laricina).
The background is a completely natural artifact of having a large telephoto lens, leaving the aperture as open as possible, and having a fairly low quality lens. The telephoto focal length along with the wide open aperture (f5.6 in this case) made the background completely blurred out. The bright highlights become circles. If I had a much nicer lens, they might be softer-edged and not as distracting. I kind of like the way they turned out though. I suspect the little specks in them mean I had a lot of dust on the end of my lens.
Winter Birch Leaf
Backlit birch leaf in winter. Taken in Halfmoon Lake Natural Area.
