Wave and Ice Ridges, Lake Michigan, 4x5

You sneaky thing! I've been waiting for a new image from you for ages and you saved 'em all up! You're a lot braver than I am to capture what you did here. I'm scared to death I will fall through that ice. Lovely expression of Lake Michigan in her chill with nicely held detail all the way throughout the image, and truely represented color.

:o) I finally bought a decent scanner.

 

This one cost me an EOS-3... fortunately they aren't that expensive on ebay these days!

 

Thanks for commenting Jen!

Excellent capture and composition!

Looks cold out there.

David very nice capture. Don't you love the 4990? Cheers.

Thanks everyone. Morey--so far, so good on the scanner. I just scanned the most difficult slide of the last year and it pulled all the shadow detail. It really does well in the shadows--very little noise without even using multipass. I've been spoiled with drum scans and the only obvious thing I see with the 4990 is a tiny loss in sharpness and finer detail.

David - wonderful lighting condition and wave action captured. Excellent image! 7/7

Excellent shot!

Thanks and Happy Easter!

Excellent composition and colors. Although I don't perfectly understand what the pieces in movement are? Ice? water? Is it a long exposure?

And why did it cost you an eos3? The freezing temperatures destroyed it?

Thank you--glad you like this one.

 

This was about a 1/8 sec exposure taken when the sun briefly shone between 2 clouds. There was tremendous motion in the water--pressure from the waves undercutting the 15 foot thick ice. You can only see a little bit of the detail here, but in a larger print you'd see all the little spurts of ice water shooting all over the place. Yes, there are large chunks of ice being thrown around down there. At one point there were several large pieces (3-5 feet across) that were heaved from the water up onto the cliffs. The iceberg I stood on was moving with each wave impact.

 

 

EOS-3 long story:

 

In order to get this shot I had to stand at the end of an iceberg and dozens of the same types of waves you see in front of you actually flew over my head. As the temperature dropped the waves froze on contact with me, my bag, and coated my EOS-3 (I use as a meter) in ice to about 1/2 inch thick. Being in the moment I simply scraped the ice from the shutter button and figured I'd scrape the rest off later. By the time I was done there was so much ice on the camera that I couldn't shut the power off. When it thawed the power was still on and that killed most of the electronics. So, don't do what I did! You should chisel ice off the camera and shut the power off before thawing a camera.

Cool, must have been fun to take that picture anyway, great work.

Amazing photo !!! Great work !!!

Excellent capture! A very powerful image!

Excellent shot David. Perfect timing and perfect composition. WOW!

Very nice capture indeed David. Excellent timing too. (I hope the Arca didn't get wet). I like the combination of shadowed and lit foreground.

 

My only suggestions, albeit minor, are to correct the slight tilt and to crop off the tiny lit areas of snow on the bottom border towards the left.

Thanks Leigh. There is more work to do on this one before printing so I appreciate your comments!

Excellent capture! good composition...i like the light!

Superb shot!

Thanks Miles! I'm a fan of your work and I appreciate that you stopped by to take a look.

This is a great shot! You can almost feel that wave crashing onto the ice. You are a brave man!

Thanks Kim! I was foolish really and doubt that I will try it again this year. Well maybe...

You already got the shot. Quit while you're ahead and still alive. . . :-)

The image itself is why I opened the photo bigger - the limited colours the movement, the composition! Then reading the comments on what it took to get the photo give this photo even more Wow!

What a great shot! Like it so much, thanks for sharing~