Today I offer up three more ice images I recently posted to my Gallery pages…
Plus, if you scroll to the end of this post, I have thrown in a bonus video (by Ben Wright) of these weird Boulder Creek ice formations so you can see the movement in a much more literal fashion.
The opportunities to photograph these scenes are actually quite fleeting. Late December through February seem to be the best months as it requires very low temperatures for relatively extended periods along with low water levels. A warming trend and/or higher water levels, or even too much snow, will ensure the scenes are quite temporal.
One of my favorite abstracts:
Notice that two are kissing and the third is looking away (in disgust, or frustration?):
The different forms to be discovered are quite amazing in their variety and delicacy:
Finally, I came across this very nice three-minute video on YouTube by Ben Wright. In it, you can see in “moving picture style” what I am actually photographing to get the above still images: