While the icy edges initially attracted me to this location, I also liked the crystal clear water revealing the jumbled rocks below.
Beauty is often at the edges. It’s the aberration that often changes a nice scene into a great one.
Last fall I found myself checking out the creeks in the mountains. There were sharp reminders that winter was on the way. The coolness in the air had worked its way into icy crystals in the water.
I loved the intricate and uneven edges of the ice. What a remarkable way to make what will become a solid piece of ice.
I found myself fascinated by the edges where the flowing water met the ice. It seemed like a wintery tug of war as the water and ice gained and lost territory with the fluctuating temperatures. Yet still the plucky water defied the ice in this game that was inevitably slipping from its grip.
I knew that the creeks were in a constant state of change and photos in this place tomorrow might not only be different but radically so. It served to remind me that what I was witnessing was special.
As began to lose the light, I packed my gear and left the icy edges to the night. Thankfully no cameras were dunked in the making of these photos.
The evening light combined with ice crystals hanging in the water attracted me to this area. The battle between ice and water rages on.
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Yes Lyle loved them all intrigued as to how you shot the last shot – is it a mini landscape?
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Thanks. It was a small area only about a metre across where a small stream was rounding a bend.
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‘Beauty at the edges’….at the very places where the battle over whether we will succumb to the frost or hang on to our liquidity, to life. I think you are on to something here…
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Or it could be the other way around, that the beauty of the frost is allowed to blossom …
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Hmmm. Hadn’t thought of it that way. Truth is often surprising.
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Yes it is … and I couldn’t resist messing with you a little since I know how much you love snow and ice.
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It’s all relative, right? Snow in December? Love. Snow in April? Not so much…. 😉
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So true. There is a season for everything though I find that typically April has them all.
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I’ve never seen a photo like that first one. There’s such a powerful feeling of movement in all parts of the water–under the ice, and even IN the frozen ice. I think it’s the contrast with the stability and solidness of the rock–its definite unmoving nature–which helps achieve that. My favorite of the three.
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Beautiful
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Thanks.
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So very beautiful Lyle. The shape and details of the ice is amazing and you captured it beautifully. That last image is really beautiful, it looks as if you’d been photographing a waterfall from the air 🙂
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Glad you like them. The last one definitely has a mysterious effect about it making one wonder what it is. I had originally left the edges of the moss show to give it some perspective but opted for mystery. The whole area is only a couple of feet.
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I enjoyed seeing what I consider to be considerably interesting and far from the normal view we might typically see of scenes such as this. Good eye to spot and photograph these details.
I would have fallen in.
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Each ecosystem has it’s own special beauty if you can find it. I’d like to say I’ve never fallen in but that wouldn’t be quite right.
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Beautiful, but so cold images, Lyle. 🙂
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It’s fascinating the see the different lenses through which others look at images. I could look at those photos all day and never come up with cold. Perhaps it’s because I was there that day and dressed warm enough or that I don’t see ice as a negative.
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Whereas, I’m sitting here in shorts and flip-flops. 😆
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I am also enamored with the frozen edges, Lyle. There are so many possibilities and, while the shapes often are similar to others, there is extreme variety. I enjoy finding the clearest of ice allowing a view through to the streambed below and sometimes the light hits them just right and there are captured prisms. Ice is nice. 🙂
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I would have guessed you would enjoy the frozen edges as well. There are really so many variations and potential shots that even after going after a number of them, I had the sense that if I had more time I would have found much better ones. Once again the art of deleting was challenging.
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Lyle,
Centered direction results in, yea, you guested it,
More comprehensive focus, now don’t you contest it!
Rocks will basically manifest it,
And then watered down, what do you do with it?
Southernly engaged, you got it!
Turn the page, as quickly or perhaps this time a little more slowly, as you are compelled to do.
And now, most appreciatively, back over to you!
Marty
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Reblogged this on mihran Kalaydjian and commented:
Beauty at the edges
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Thanks for the reblog.
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Love that last image especially! The edge of everything is best I think. But it can be risky too! Haha.
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It’s interesting how the last images of the day can be the best. You certainly are the expert on that edge stuff – including the humour.
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Very nice ice shots, I may miss winter now that muddy spring has arrived. Time to make lemonade out of lemons.
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Thanks. For as long as I can remember spring has been my least favourite season – a sentiment not widely shared. Then again I don’t hate winter.
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Lyle, these are simply beautiful! Macro photography in the “interstitial zone” shows fragile structures and amazing light play. Thank you
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Thanks. They remind me of some of the beautiful photos you showed me and a new term for them) at least for me!
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