No snow today, just ice and blossoms.

There are as many ways to photograph ice as any subject we night imagine.

The hard frozen aspects of ice can be compositionally tied in with soft, moving liquid water, very nicely. I know I write about both how to create contrasts, and how to avoid the them on these pages. In the case below, I think embracing hard frozen water and soft moving water compliments each.

There’s nothing like some vertical ice in the foreground, and some dark, steel, blue skies in back.

Icicles present themselves in a myriad of “hanging positions, when they find some hard rock to cling to. The bottom of riverside rocks, cement, metal or wooden bridges, make for great companions in images.

Icicles deserve some close-up inspection, as they cling on for their lives. A couple of warm hours and the subject will be gone.

Flat sheets of natural ice covering small streams, ponds, or even mud puddles, make for fascinating macros. Shoot strait down when you can.

Of course, sometimes there’s a crack in the ice. Or a hole.

Look for ice patterns but also open water and the angles that you see. Twist camera and tripod, and yourself into as many angles as you can find.

Today let is look at flowers in the context of their immediate environment.

They make great compliments to landscapes. The two below were created in Utah, one of this nation’s most beautiful places.

Sometimes groupings of a species, combined with a little “greenery”, is enough.

These Virginia Bluebells were perfect for this inner forest landscape. This is not a planting but completely natural. Flowers have been known to escape with helpers such as insects, wind, or critters like deer as their food goes in one end, and sometimes the seeds go out the other.

Finally, when winter & spring collide.

Titus 3:5
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy, He saved us, by a washing of Regeneration (a born again believer), and renewing of the Holy Spirit.

May God Bless,
Wayne