Holland River

[Andrew McLachlan]

A few weeks ago while on my way to photograph a lovely male Snowy Owl in a large agricultural area near my home, the patterns of ice, snow, and open water along the Holland River, which flows through the agricultural lands at this site, caught my attention. Winter photography around my home this year has been hit and miss due to the lack of snowfall.

Look forward to comments.

Nikon D200
Nikon 80-400mm lens @ 270mm
ISO200
f16 @ 1/180 second
tripod
mirror-lock
cable release
no filters

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[Brendan Dozier]

Lovely winter abstact composition, Andrew. Like the curving lines, blues, and balance to this. Nice quiet, calm feel to it. btw - Congrats on your Ontario Landscape guide, I just saw that available online at the birdsasart store. Have to check that out!

[Tom Rambaut]

This is just great - simple but yet very powerful image.

[Hilary Hann]

I love the clean, simple lines of this landscape. Very nicely seen and processed.

[Rachel Hollander]

Andrew - I agree with the above. Clean, simple scene and well captured.

TFS,
Rachel

[Jay Gould]

Understated and works perfectly!

[Robert Amoruso]

Well done Andrew for the reasons mentioned above.

I know this is not noise but what is causing the dark dots on the ice and snow?

[Andrew McLachlan]

Thanks all for the comments, much appreciated.

Robert, to answer your question, this may be a bit of soil from the surrounding agricultural fields that are on both sides of this river.

[Morkel Erasmus]

Nicely done for all the reasons mentioned...
:cheers: