Rainbow ice

A small (4'') ice formation on the edge of the Icicle River on a 20 degree morning. Illuminated by indirect light from the morning sky, and not seen without polarizing sunglasses.

Sony R1, 0.4 sec @ f.16, polarizing filter, various Tony Kuyper masks, Marc Adamus' sharpening.

Marc,
I guess I'll make the first post for March. I've looked at this a few times and just couldn't come up with a critique. I still kind of can't except for it is growing on me a bit. Kind of abstracty.

I know what you mean, Erik. I wasn't quite sure what to make of this either. I've never seen anything like it so I thought I would lay it on you guys and see what you thought of it.

Marc, this is simply a very cool abstract with great color and texture. Those lacy patterns in the ice on the LRS add a lot, IMO. Looks almost organic and membranous, like a detail from a Portugese Man Of War jellyfish or something such. Great eye and great capture!

I like this. My first thought when I saw it was that it looked a lot like the effects one can get with photomicrographs when using polarized light. It would be interesting to have seen what you can get from various viewing angles - the rainbow should move around depending on the POV of the camera and the light. The low angle light is more polarized - hence the difference using a polarizing filter. The best part is the details of the flaws in the ice - nice that they are there to provide a focus for the subject as well as providing some very interesting shapes and textures.

Very interesting to look at. I think it might make more of a dramatic abstract impact (say that 3 times fast) if it were cropped in from the edges, removing the rocks.

What Erik said .