Ice Abstract #1

Very striking. I've seen some ice in my day, but never anything like that. Congrats on catching it in LF!

Wow, that is seriously nice! I'd be keen to see more of the thin ice in the top right corner on a real print, but the composition is excellent from here.

Exquisitely seen and executed! Bravo!

This is such a unique photo. Where I live we never even see frost, let alone ice. It's amzing that such a pattern could be formed simply by frost knocked off trees.

Wow!

Very good!

Thank you all for the comments.

I should have worded my initial comment a bit better. This image was made before the wind picked up. After the frost fell on the ice it just looked like it had been snowed on; the fine detail was obscured.

Just a word for gbroadbridge; the ice forms on the surface of the water. If it remains in contact with the water it is black and has a fine texture. The light areas are where the ice has expanded and lifted off of the surface of the water. It then forms frost on the bottom of the ice, not unlike a frosted pane of glass. The trees and sticks jutting through the surface cause it to form in very abstract and various ways.

Thanks again all for the comments!

Beautiful image. Very Brett Weston-like. I am sure you are familar with his work, as he did many ice abstractions as the such.

When I view this image, I see several other image possiblities within this single photograph. In a way, I feel you photographed what you saw as a whole, and you still could have moved in closer to the subject matter. Because of this, the image does not come acrost as "Abstract" but rather a photograph of the form and shape, which is still very pleasing. If you were going for more an "abstract" I think you would have to remove the reconizable objects within the image, like the flowing water in the top, and the tree. Althought they are compositional elements that work in this image, it breaks the "Abstract" for me. Give this a try- Just viewing the image above, crop with your hands the small section to the RIGHT of the tree, where those 3 black lines come down just a few inches away from the tree. Now, by isolating this small section, it removes any reconizable objects that can give a sense of space, size and becomes more "Abstract". This section still have beautiful form, balance and composition.

Keep up the nice work, and I look forward to seeing more posts from you! Ryan McIntosh

This is very nice. I would like to see a little harder contrast but otherwise wouldn't change a thing. I think this is a perfect example of an abstract image as it is. Who cares whether there are recognizable objects in the image? Certainly not me. Getting hung up on what a thing is and not how it relates to the image space and the other objects around it can only be a detriment to photographic seeing. As Ryan stated, the flowing water and tree(really a twig and thinner ice - guess they are not so recognizeable after all ) are "compositional elements that work in this image" and in that way transcend their literal identity. Good seeing.