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| Harry Lavo | profile | all galleries >> HFL Photos - Other Intentional Photography >> Mother Nature's Creative Best | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
Ice Patterns created completly by accident, started accidentally by me and acted upon creatively by Mother Nature.
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It all started here. I had set a cut christmas tree in a bucket of water, along with just a touch of dishwasher detergent (surfactant). After moving the tree indoors, the bucket was allowed to sit outdoors as the temperature plummeted into single digits.
The next day I turned the bucket over and dumped it. The 1/4" thick frozen sidewalls gave way under the weight/pressure of the remaining liquid water. Since temperatures remained frigid the next few days, this is what sat outside my doorway.
After two days of freezing cold, today the temperature warmed to just above freezing, with the sun out. Imagine my surprise when I exited at noon to find the ice had formed exquisite patterns of fissures and surface patterns. My quess is that the surfactant trapped in the ice bubbled to create the patterns, but it may just have been the sun itself acting upon stresses within the ice.
I attempted to shoot from different angles to get the sunlight reflecting in different ways.
In any case, I really love this one for its muted color and interesting patterns.
