A Subtle Sunrise
A soft golden glow warms the winter Rockies' higher reaches, chasing away grey clouds, and lending just enough light to reveal slight aquamarine tints in the dark glacial ice speckled profusely with the always-intriguing methane bubbles in Abraham Lake, Alberta, Canada.
This is a bit of a different composition from most of my shots that morning from this location, as I tried this one without fully using either of the most prominent available mountain peaks there (one such peak is just out of the frame on the left and the other extends beyond the heights rising to the edge of the frame in the top right). The result leaves my eye to wander some in the image, and I find its an image I enjoy wandering a bit within.
So many visual and experiential details of that environment captured me on that brief visit just before the pandemic, things I'd encountered part and parcel before, but never quite altogether or so intensely as there. I loved the unpredictable creaks and groans of the shifting ice sheet, and the little crunches of my microspikes upon it as I moved against the heavy push of wind, feeling cold reach deep into my chest at times. It only got more interesting encountering the stacks of ice bubbles within the clear wind-scoured ice, and seeing the frozen lake's inky, fathomless expanse contrasting with the bright, textured snow accents on the mountains' ancient uplifted rock layers.
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A Subtle Sunrise
A soft golden glow warms the winter Rockies' higher reaches, chasing away grey clouds, and lending just enough light to reveal slight aquamarine tints in the dark glacial ice speckled profusely with the always-intriguing methane bubbles in Abraham Lake, Alberta, Canada.
This is a bit of a different composition from most of my shots that morning from this location, as I tried this one without fully using either of the most prominent available mountain peaks there (one such peak is just out of the frame on the left and the other extends beyond the heights rising to the edge of the frame in the top right). The result leaves my eye to wander some in the image, and I find its an image I enjoy wandering a bit within.
So many visual and experiential details of that environment captured me on that brief visit just before the pandemic, things I'd encountered part and parcel before, but never quite altogether or so intensely as there. I loved the unpredictable creaks and groans of the shifting ice sheet, and the little crunches of my microspikes upon it as I moved against the heavy push of wind, feeling cold reach deep into my chest at times. It only got more interesting encountering the stacks of ice bubbles within the clear wind-scoured ice, and seeing the frozen lake's inky, fathomless expanse contrasting with the bright, textured snow accents on the mountains' ancient uplifted rock layers.
Thanks for viewing!