Posts Tagged ‘ice’

A mass of the feathery crystals – these were growing on a snow-covered rock by the brook:

When I took this it was 8  F – now it’s in the 30s F. Balmy by comparison, if not quite spring.


Crystal leaf

14Feb09

High magnification closeup of a single ice crystal.


Another image of the same brook, on a different day, showing a longer course of water:


Icy Cascade

09Jan09

An icy cascade in a brook:

Just a small part of a one foot high waterfall. A long exposure in early morning light. I’m learning to love the opportunities that come for photography in winter.


Winter stream

28Feb08

The last few days I’ve been at Kiln Brook, looking for snaky flows of water through the rocks. Every day is different – the light is different, the snow melted gradually and ice formed in the flows, then melted completely. Now it’s cold again – 20 F, headed for 5 F overnight). More ice tomorrow!

The [...]


Ice shapes

17Feb08

When it freezes, the water in slow moving streams makes neat curving shapes and bubble patterns. Ice art! I spent a happy morning last week walking along a stream called Clematis Brook finding all sorts of beautiful ice shapes. Click a thumbnail to see a larger image:

In the first two, [...]


Small cascade

30Jan08

I love waterfalls, but there aren’t many in my area. To get my fix of falling water I look for small scale cascades like this one, just a foot high or so:

This one is from Kiln Brook in a conservation area in my town. To make this one, I combined two exposures at different [...]


Last week was extremely cold in the Boston area – single digits, negative wild chills. When it gets that cold streams and brooks form beautiful ice patterns. Sometimes streams accumulate star-shaped ice crystals on the icy surface (I call them ice flowers), and there also can be tiny delicate ice crystals. I’ve seen a bit [...]