Ice Drops
The same day that I photographed the frosty moss, there was ice on puddles and shallow ditch water on Wallace Drive (near the middle of this map). I was interested to photograph the ice because lots of interesting ice photos have been floating (like pack ice I guess) around blogs the past few months. We rarely get ice, and unfortunately it is not usually very interesting either.
Some of the ice was suspended in the air over the puddles and was beginning to melt, with drops of water forming on the underside of the ice briefly before falling to reform the puddles. So, these are my ice pictures for the year. I expect.
To launch the gallery viewer for a larger version click on any image.
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- iceangles
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- iceblob
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- icecrystal
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- icecurve
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- icedrops
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- iceholes
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- iceleaves
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- iceswhirls
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Canon EOS 5D MkII with SMC Takumar 100mm f4.0 macro lens (m42)
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burnt embers 
To echo LenScraper “…with absolutely no idea of scale” I absolutely agree. At first, I thought it was an image of a rather water infested landscape taken from a plane! Love this series, nice job.
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OK, another try at this reply, the other one never showed up. As I was saying – I will categorise this with my aerial landscapes so that I can group them together when there are enough of them. I like these “without scale” shots that look like aerial views. I don’t always get them on purpose and often the accidental ones are the best.
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These are all wonderful. I can’t decide which one I like most. Ice makes some lovely abstract designs. 🙂
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Thanks Robin – I can’t take credit for the designs ;). But, I do like the first one the best, and the iceangles one too.
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Great series – the primary image ‘IceWhirls’ is in itself a strong abstract with absolutely no idea of scale. As a series you get some idea of the scale of things. Well seen images.
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Thanks Andy – much appreciated. I like that first image the best of all of them, though I had not thought of the scale, or lack thereof, it was the patterns and how they lead the eye that I really liked, and the simplicity.
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Beautiful shots, but I’m waiting for the cherry blossoms.
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David – I am so sorry. I will see to it 🙂
Actually I was hoping for some blue sky to go with them, but recently the weather has been horrible, and many of the blossoms are lying on the ground now, ripped off the trees by wind.
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Drops, swirls, leaves, blobs and just mere crystals, you capture them all, and ice is so ephemeral here with all the rain that follows. I love this series gill
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Hi Gillian, thanks for your comment. It is nice to see the ice up close, for a short time. The best of all worlds in some way. There really is such a thing as too much ice. My cat says any ice is too much ice, but she doesn’t use a camera.
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What interesting natural formations, my friend, great series!! Is it spring yet??…
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Thanks Toad – how about I tell you near the end of April whether it’s spring yet?
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Exciting to look at, very nice! (glad it is over)
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Hi Joseph – I hope its over!
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excellent … great post 🙂
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Thank you maenamor!
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Natures ephemeral masterpieces. Lovely!
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Hi Karen – ephemeral for sure, especially in this part of the world – they were exposed to daylight for just a few hours.
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Lovely! The ice whirls one in particular look like contour lines on a map.
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Hi skadhu – that one is my favourite and maybe that is the reason. I like contour maps, they are such an elegant concept.
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Beautiful series. The ice drops are particularly lovely.
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Thanks Lemony – it seems like people like different ones this time. Must be the truly organic patterns with different appeal for different eyes.
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Lovely. Here in Los Angeles, we never get ice. However, in the San Gabriel’s, as a kid, i loved to watch the formations in the deep winter mornings. These make me nostalgic for that.
The iceangels and iceswirls are lovely. I really like the a turned bits of light captured in each image.
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Hi Ryan – thanks so much. I did my elementary school years in an old house in Edmonton with single pane windows and less than perfect storm windows and no insulation in the walls (those were the days!). That combination produced some fantastic frost patterns on bedroom windows the likes of which I have not seen for many decades. Seeing photos of them makes me nostalgic, but really, I don’t miss the experiencing of them.
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Beautiful shot. I have been doing similar work for a while (we get a lot of ice here) and I have a small collection of ice photos from other photographers. Like sunrises and sunsets and baskets of kittens, we have to photograph it. I like your take on this subject and the selection shows there are so many ways to capture ice. Well done.
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Thanks Ken. It is true there are things we must photograph. I was finding that when first doing this blog, and not having looked at a lot of other people’s work, that I would post something and then start noticing other very similar shots that had not really been in my mind before that – like grass against a sunset. It felt like I was posting cliches, and I was. But they were shots that called out to the me. Ice has such unusual patterns, how can anyone resist?
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