Ice painting

patterns in a frozen pond

Excellent ! Congrats !

Fascinating natural occurrence, I like the soft light. The scratches lend good contrast & texture - how is it that some of the pieces of vegetation appear lighter than others?

Actually the "scratches" are air under the ice surface. I have never seen a freezing pattern like this before.

The light patches on the plants are just where the vegetation was dry. It was a warm day and things were starting to get wet. Jut a bit of lightness changes and some USM. No coloring on my part.

 

I kind of wish I'd cropped off the stuff on the lower left side.

Hi Chris, no-one commented on the strong calligraphic element of this work which is where I think the magic lies. In fact, if you rotate it 90 degrees left it reads 'suberb' in Cantonese. However, i feel there's something missing here. I can't put my finger on it but, IMHO, there's an absent element which stops this fine piece from being a masterwork.

Thanks for the comment Darrel,

 

Like I said, I've never seen this sort of pattern in ice before. It did remind me of brush strokes.

I totally agree with you that something is not quite "right" I thought it might have to do with the cropping. I can't think of anything that could be added that wouldn't distract from the painting/calligraphy effect.

Maybe a paintbrush or something.

 

Well, if you change it, let us see what you do to it! I love it!

This is very beautiful and I can hardly believe those aren't brush strokes. It really could be a painting. The ice "strokes" have a wonderful flow like flower petals. If I could make two little suggestions to what I would do if it were my photo. First thing would be to clone out some of the twigs at the top and then with "layers" enhance the darker parts of the ice which are almost transparent by making them darker and thus creating a little more of a contrast.

 

You have a keen eye to catch this beauty in nature. Kim.

A surprising and beautiful find, very well captured.

A natural abstract.