1512_0318 Ice
For me, this one is fantasyland. I suppose everybody will see something different in it, and I don't want to curtail that, so I'll just call it "Ice" and leave the rest ambiguous.
There's no trickery here. I used a tripod and macro lens, aimed straight down at the frozen surface of Rock Creek. It's the time-honoured and easy technique of parallel plane focusing: get the plane of the subject parallel to the plane of the camera's sensor, so that everything in the frame is equidistant from the sensor; then stop the lens down to provide enough depth of field to render all of it sharp if your angle is slightly off. Voila!
Photographed in the East Block of Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan. Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2015 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
1512_0318 Ice
For me, this one is fantasyland. I suppose everybody will see something different in it, and I don't want to curtail that, so I'll just call it "Ice" and leave the rest ambiguous.
There's no trickery here. I used a tripod and macro lens, aimed straight down at the frozen surface of Rock Creek. It's the time-honoured and easy technique of parallel plane focusing: get the plane of the subject parallel to the plane of the camera's sensor, so that everything in the frame is equidistant from the sensor; then stop the lens down to provide enough depth of field to render all of it sharp if your angle is slightly off. Voila!
Photographed in the East Block of Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan. Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2015 James R. Page - all rights reserved.