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would they? without context, how would you know they were ice textures?

Because I'm familiar with the look of textures and by my zooming in as a makeshift crop those two images look like ice to me especially from the texture and that particular hue of blue color.

Looking at it another way, I derive and base my judgements on the decisions made by what the photographer wants me to look at by way of exclusion and inclusion. There are a number of ways the photographer could've conveyed the subject of ice as abstract but I respect or maybe just accept the photographer's decision to provide scale in size of the subject. The feeling of big-ness becomes part of the abstract in the way it's presented. Cropping out the surrounding water and sky would tell me the photographer doesn't want to communicate that as part of the abstract.

And my mentioning no one complaining was a poor choice of words. I meant to say going by how very few folks initiate and participate in the Abstract forum, I don't see many folks taking note of whether certain images strictly qualify as abstract in nature.

I was one when this forum first took off who did take note and I saw that I was hitting a brick wall and so I just let it go.

Face of Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska, 1976

Hector, I wonder what the Mendenhall looks like now.

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