Daniel Cadieux
01-06-2015, 06:44 PM
After photographing a Snowy Owl on January 1st, I continued my New Year's Day by photographing really neat patterns in the ice of a frozen-over brook in a local forest. The lack of snow combined with cold temperatures made for some unique opportunities with all the frozen bodies of water clear of any snow on them. This brook, or stream, was still running and bubbling fast and loudly under the ice and with a bit of imagination it was not dif...ficult to see why frozen "bubbles" would have appeared.
Just for size reference the smaller circles in the top half of the image averaged about the diameter of a pencil eraser, and these patterns were all over (or under) the ice for as far as I could follow the five-foot wide brook. The ice was also thick enough to walk on (water depth was about one foot at most so I was not worried). Too cool!
Canon 7D + 100mm f/2.8 macro, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/200s., f/7.1, ISO 800, FF, natural light, handheld, half a dozen specks removed via spot removal tool, kept the WB on the cool side for coldness effect
Just for size reference the smaller circles in the top half of the image averaged about the diameter of a pencil eraser, and these patterns were all over (or under) the ice for as far as I could follow the five-foot wide brook. The ice was also thick enough to walk on (water depth was about one foot at most so I was not worried). Too cool!
Canon 7D + 100mm f/2.8 macro, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/200s., f/7.1, ISO 800, FF, natural light, handheld, half a dozen specks removed via spot removal tool, kept the WB on the cool side for coldness effect