Super Nova

It really looks like a celestial event, or perhaps the "Big Bang" Or even an event on a sub particle level.

Nice contrast, the light is is well controlled and the black background of "outer space" is what supports the image.

Very Cool Floris

perfect - lovely composition and well toned. great work floris, i'm loving this.

I could see it rotated 90 deg anticlockwise with a sliver shaved off the (new) right hand side.

Very cool.
Looks like an ice ghost escaping.

Hmm, looks a bit familiar. Would not not have considered this in B&W, but it really does have a bit of that interstellar look.

Impressive "astro photo" - like how the tones are managed, comes across very much like night sky with the "star winds" pushing constellations. I think monochrome treatment works well here.

Nice image. Love the title, too.

Excellent abstract Floris. Very cosmic and hypnotic.

it has an abstract touch to it. I really do love it. It looks great in black and white and you did a good job processing it. I wonder how this would look like in color.

Thanks folks!

Stuart - I did think about (and try) a rotated version.. it just always felt a little awkward to me, perhaps because I'm used to seeing it vertically. It was taken looking almost straight down, so really it shouldn't make much of a difference.

Tony - same cave as the one you're thinking of but a different ice pool.

R.Bill - There were some interesting colors, but in order to get it looking nice I needed to do a lot of contrast manipulations and dodging and burning, when you start to do that, the colors start to look really strange.

Floris, while this isn't half as interesting to me as your other one it still might be the most interesting shot I've seen this week. The title could not possibly be better! Amazing stuff.

nice job!!

Pretty cool, but i think the whites need to be brighter--if feels kind of dull to me. I like the exploding radials tho

Hi Floris.

Is this a telescope image of the Big Bang?

Seriously, I like it. Cool!

This is awesome Floris. I know this is a static scene, but it really feels like it is moving. Great job with composition and processing.

Hi Floris,
I'm happy to see your work again. This has your signature and while I miss color I also like the lines and the contrast that the B&W bring to the photo.
Very nice indeed.

Pretty awesome. I see a fun show of these works of yours in the future. Go get em :)

aF

Stunning Floris. I have always tried to capture something similar but this is far better than my attempts. Great processing and keeping the focus on the inner structure. Nice to see some ice images now.

Hope job is going well.
Thanks for sharing

What a lovely image. So much mystery and beauty.