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December 5, 2022
We got our first frost of the season today. I love how the frost is so selective of where it "grows." The sides of this pressure treated board were covered with an icy pelt, but the fractured ends, full of tiny cracks, were frost-free.
(a "Macro Mondays" submission, theme "Crack" HMM!)
Brewster, Massachusetts
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The temperature dropped down to 29'F last night and everything that could freeze did! This morning I noticed that the ice on the birdbath was starting to fracture and melt much like on a pond. I thought thanks Mother Nature for helping me with today's challenge!
A couple of cold calm nights froze the shallow north end of Bear Lake, Idaho. Then the wind came up and pushed the ice on-shore where it piled up in fantastic stacks. Since then, the lake froze again, so if the wind comes up again thes piles should continue to grow.
Untitled sculpture by Anish Kapooor at High Museum of Art in Atlanta GA. It consists of pieces of mirror on a concave base that produce inverted images that take on fractal patterns.
Our terrain is insecure.
I spot fractures everywhere.
What-I-Have is a bird
with wings ready for stage third.
Milky Way rising over Badlands National Park, South Dakota.
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Duplicate images layered in photoshop and blended using different blending modes for each layer. Converted to mono in Silver Effex Pro.
"There are maps through your bones and skin, to the way you've felt and the way you've been."
Happy new year! I hope you've all had an amazing start to 2015 I'd really hoped to get out and shoot today but the weather decided to be awful, so instead I decided to give life to this old unedited photo from 2012 (which, surprisingly, feels like years ago now…). Here's to a great year and the weather hopefully improving later this week so I can go and shoot my first photos of 2015!
model: Olivia Clemens
For Sid 1937-1999.
© Diana Yakowitz all rights reserved.
This is a recently scanned slide that I fiddled with some (only upped contrast, reduced saturation a little and crop). I love the leaf patterns with their fossil or even fingerprint like look against the sky. The original date brought back many memories and thus the dedication.
So this will be my intro build to the Fractured Kingdoms.
Meet William Renou 29 years old. knight of the kingdom of Alborne. Second son of David Renou, a count in the Farencrest region. As a second son William has no claim on the title of his father. that title goes to his brother. William is a knight of Alborne, together with his most trusted men he defends the borders of Alborne.
we think we see the world as it is.
a simple, solid fact of mountain and sky.
but there is always a layer in between.
a pane of glass, a reflection on water,
the lens of an eye.
the truth is never a single, clear image.
it is a collage of fractured planes.
a beautiful, complicated, and layered thing.
We're going to come up to the eyes of clarity
And we'll go down to the beads of guile
There is danger and education
In living out such a reckless lifestyle
I touched you on the central plains
It was plane to train my twin
It was just plane shadow to train shadow
But it felt like skin to skin
The spirit talks in spectrums
He talks to mother earth to father sky
Self indulgence to self denial
Man to woman
Scales to feathers
You and I.
~ Joni Mitchell, from Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
Nikon D700, Nikkor 17-35 mm @ 17 mm,
8.0 s @ f/18, ISO 100,
Singh Ray GND's
We tend to take for granted the integrity of the foundation of our everyday lives. But the solid icy surface of modern civilization only runs so deep. Once in a while the cracks appear and make us enormously aware of our own vulnerability. And maybe our shared humanity as well? While there have been many trying events in my life, few have had the kind of global resonance that the current Coronavirus pandemic has. My prayers go out to all those affected personally. For the rest of us, it is an opportunity to reflect on the fragility of life and what we value most deeply.
It seems almost a lifetime now, but just a few short weeks ago I had a couple of days to explore the crazy, frozen environs of Abraham Lake in Alberta Canada. While frozen lakes are not exactly unusual in Canada (home to approx. 60% of the world's lakes, almost 100% of which will be frozen in February), Abraham Lake is quite unique among them, being a glacial runoff lake (fed by the indescribable turquoise runoff of the Canadian Rocky Mountain glaciers), a man-made lake of recent origin (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lake), and most importantly, a location that is subject to nearly continuous scouring by intense winds in the winter.
On the relatively mild days I was there, wind speeds ranged from 10-40mph, gusting even higher at times. At one point the wind managed to physically push me about 20 feet down the ice. While I was wearing ice cleats. It literally left deep groves on the ice where my boots were digging in while the wind pushed me. That is an insane level of wind force. The upside is that the wind cleans off much of the snow from the ice surface (nature’s own Zamboni) and lays bare the surprisingly varied beauty of the ice formations underneath.
The ice is of course subjected to major stresses during the winter which result in huge cracks across the surface such as those seen here. However, the ice is also remarkably thick (12-24 inches here, at a guess), and more solid than it often looked. Even more uniquely, the decaying organic material creates methane bubbles that get trapped in the ice during the winter. The layers of methane bubbles combined with the crazy lines of fractured glacial ice create a visual field almost unprecedented in its weirdness, and the incredibly discomfiting effect that has on one's own sense of preservation.
it's also a perfect metaphor for the wild fracturing occurring in the broader world as a result of COVID-19 pandemic.
I took many shots on Abraham Lake, but in some situations I found it either impossibly tedious or outright impossible to get the shot I wanted with the DSLR and a tripod (remember, 40mph winds!), and so I resorted to a lot of shots with my iPhone while lying on my belly. This is one of those. Not ideal. But it works.
A quick personal shout-out here to my good friend John Cohn. I placed a "Sam Stone" at the nearby Aurum Lodge, a great little B&B that is the perfect home base for exploring Abraham Lake. John created Sam Stones to honor the memory of his son Sam and I am honored to have a few of these in my possession. If you find this, or any other, SamStone please record your find at www.samstones.org and feel free to re-home it and keep the chain going.
Stay safe and wash your hands my friends!
Clearing weather gave rise to this amazing phenomenon moving away from me as I shot this scene from the slopes of Frenchmans Cap
The Golden Gate on the Loop Road south of Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park runs through a canyon along Glen Creek called the Golden Gate.The cayon wall expose Huckleberry Ridge Tuff, which erupted during the first volcanic cycle of Yellowstone about 2.1 million years ago. This outcrop of the Huckleberry Ridge Tuff lies about 20 km north from the rim of the caldera that formed as a consequence of its eruption. The tuff extends in a finger like shape north outside the caldera. Based on the distribution of the tuff, geologists postulate that the ash may have flowed down a broad river valley that existed before the eruption and filled or partly flled the valley. Subsequent cooling, faulting, and uplift caused the fractures.
References: Robert L. Christiansen; The Quaternary and Pliocene Yellowstone Plateau Volcanic Field of Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana; U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 729-G
I was trying to just post one image a day. It's gone out of the window a bit as I need to get through what I've got a bit quicker. I doesn't help that I keep adding new ones as quick as I'm finishing off the older ones. Anyway, one from the weekend to accompany the Lofoten Islands one posted earlier.