Ice abstracts

LordV · Post by **LordV** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 12:38 am

Thin ice sheet shot against some different backgrounds (mainly an orchid). All shots were focus stacked using zerene stacker. Taken around 2 or 3:1 FF handheld.

Brian v.

abpho · Post by **abpho** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 9:04 am

The four images with the colour are trippy.

DQE · Post by **DQE** » Tue Dec 20, 2011 1:15 pm

Very enjoyable and unusual abstract patterns, well-photographed.

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For whatever reasons, the ice we have where I live on the ocean in southern Maine simply doesn't form into such patterns. Part of this may be due to the small amount of salt from the ocean spray that is often present (just a speculation on my part).

The area of the UK where you live and photograph continues to impress me as an unusual micro-climate! Your extremely varied and beautiful macro photographs are even more unusual!

LordV · Post by **LordV** » Wed Dec 21, 2011 12:55 am

Thanks for the comments

Phil - this is what I would call marginal ice - very thin coating on some water. The odder ice structures seem to form on the underside of the ice. In this case the gas bubbles were only present around the edge of the ice.
The air temp at the time was actually around 2.C so this had formed from a ground frost effect.
I suspect your temps are a lot colder resulting in thick solid sheets of ice. You could try putting out a dish of water and then looking at it fairly shortly after the ice had started to form on the surface.

Brian V