Posts Tagged ‘ice’
And more crystals
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.
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Crystal leaf
High magnification closeup of a single ice crystal.
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Icy Cascade (II)
Another image of the same brook, on a different day, showing a longer course of water:
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Icy Cascade
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.
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Winter stream
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 [...]
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Ice shapes
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, [...]
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Small cascade
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 [...]
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Beech leaf, stream ice
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 [...]
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