World Without Limits

That is just sweet. Excellent color, lines, and the tiny trapped bubbles really add to the interest. Print it Huge!

Fantastic! Beautiful patern and color. Large size is awsome Stan.

Awesome abstract. Large version is a must see. Colors and details are just great.Well done

very nice clarity here. great abstract patterns.

Amazing abstract Stan! The larger version is great to look at.

Amazing!
Mauro

This is really nice Stan-great other worldliness.

Awesome, Stan! I can't make up my mind if this looks like outer space, or underwater. Either way, its quite otherworldly, and a real trip to look at.

A technical question. Assuming that what you meant was that you moved the entire unit (camera and tripod) across the ice with the tripod head in a fixed, downward position, wouldn't the movement of the camera create motion parallax when photographing a 3 dimensional scene like this? i.e. the details on the surface would seem to move farther than the deeper details in relation to the previous frame? I can see this technique working on a 2D surface, such as a wall mural, but as soon as depth is introduced to the scene it seems to me like things could get wacky in a big hurry as far as stitching goes. Maybe I'm over thinking it? Whatever the answer is; you sure came away with a winner in this shot.

Stan,

Very neat, but what do you mean you slid your tripod?

Fantastic Stan. The detail and depth is really amazing and I really like how you kept the blue tones. In fact, the luminous blue tones in the cracks to me really make this sort of other worldly. Interesting method that has resulted in one superb image.

This is great, Stan. Ice patterns look awesome! These tiny dots look almost like if they were moving... taking me somewhere to the space. Lovely color too.

Wonderful abstract Stan, and the deep blue just pulls me in.

Very cool, love the dimensionality of it!

Crazy good, Stan. Amazing how we love abstracts here, isn't it?

This looks celestial Stan..... like a time warp or something. I love the abstractness of it and the blues. Definately mind bending and unique! Spectacular abstract.

Very cool Stan. Great execution of an interesting abstract.

Awesome! The larger version is a real treat to view, Stan. Definitely is mind-bending.

Ed

Fan-fricken-tastic! Looks very stellar and wierd!!

Fantastic! Just love the composition to position the lines, and the detail in the bubbles as well as colors on top just add to the impact

Wow, I really like this Stan. The patterns and textures are just wonderful, it looks like something from outer space. I bet this would be awesome printed big.

Sweeeeet! The color, patterns, and, oh, the detail!

Fascinating Stan, just incredible what ice can do. Looks like a little universe! I'd say I'm jealous (since I love ice), but hey, I spent the weekend shooting flowers in the desert and it was 76 and lovely.. guess I can't complain

fabulously seen and executed. well done stan. i'd be inclined to try slicing off some of the right side of the image to crop off that lighter blue and bigger vertical line near the right edge, i think one would be left with an even more abstract result?!

Man this is nice Stan.
I looked all Winter for ice like this, and as Yukon Cornelius would say ... "Nothin' !"

Intoxicating blues amongst the fingers of light.

Thanks, folks!
Youssef and Aaron--excellent questions. When i said i slid the tripod, thats what i mean, i slid it forward with the camera oriented perpendicular to the direction of movement, and facing straight down, overlapping a bit between exposures. Aaron--you are absolutely right, although the parallax was only part of the problem--the internal reflections and refractions were even tougher! No way i could auto-align this, had to do it manually. If this was a mountain scene, it wouldnt have worked because its not a "perfect" stitch--but this is an abstract so it doesnt matter (at least to me!) that some of the reflections are slightly overlapped or warped--who's gonna notice?

"mind bending" indeed! awesome

This is wild Stan, love the patterns and the specks really add to this one. Great work.

Stan this is even better than that RMNP version!! Amazing... Large version really takes you in!

The detail and pattern are mind blowing. Great work..

Thanks for the reply, Stan. The parallax issues seem like enough of a challenge, but I never even thought about the internal reflections and such. With all of those elements working against you, you sure handled it well. And yeah.... who's gonna notice if some things are a little bit fudged? Who cares? Not me. Looks great!

Incredible photograph. The best of these that I’ve seen.

Beautifully envisioned and created. I can't think of anything I would change here... great stuff!

I love ice patterns like this, and this one is beautiful. Wonderful detail.

Whoa!

Amazing detail and patterns Stan, love the blue. Excellent work.
John

Thanks for all the comments folks! I have one more id like to share, but i think ill mix things up with a little sand first....