Friday, February 6, 2015

Frozen February

















Now this is what I'm talking about!  Thanks to some nice cold weather the past several days, ice has been forming along the shoreline again.  We have had too many days this winter where the temperature was too warm for ice to form on the rocks at the water's edge of the big lake.  The lines of ice that you see in the foreground of this photo were made by waves splashing on the rocks, then running back down towards the lake.  In the cold air, a little bit of water from each wave freezes as it runs back downhill.  Eventually, you end up with something that looks like what you see in this photo.  In order to emphasize the lines in the ice, I used a very low camera angle by laying prone on the ground with the camera just a few inches off the surface of the ice.  

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