Bud on ice! Or rather, IN ice. You certainly found the storm's silver lining, didn't you? Or crystal lining...anyway, I love first of all the effect of ice globes, and also the color and the compostion and the sparkle and the...
Wow! Excellent photo. The vivid blue of the sky reflecting through the ice, contrasting with the frozen red warmth of the encased plants really works well here.
What an amazing photo Its sad to see things totally enveloped in ice this way on one hand, but on the other its very beautiful. So I think its a great shot..
Cool! And I really mean that. Where I live they do that on purpose to protect apple and soft fruit buds, believe it or not the ice produces heat. If it freezes they just turn the sprinklers on. Nice work.
I'm up near Clay Center. I remember that storm. NASTY! But we were clouded over then entire time. Check out my gallery for a shot called Frozen in time. One of the shots I took during that same storm. We went without power for two weeks. Camped out the family on the kitchen floor in front of the propane powered oven just to keep warm.
For in and out, above, about, below,
'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show,
Play'd in a Box whose Candle is the Sun,
Round which we Phantom Figures come and go.
From Edward Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Check out the site "Between Truths", read, learn and pass on. The three steps is all you need to remember to get started. =)
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