Ice Patterns (December 2019)

I returned to Sherwood Forest to start the winter tree photography but also came across some iced puddles. These are great for abstract style photography. The trapped air creates these great, and sometimes quite strange, shapes and patterns:

The water for the above shots collects in ruts in the ground, possibly from vehicles that have driven on the forest roads. Not all were frozen on this occasion as these two photographs demonstrate. The first shows the weeds that quickly grow in these puddles and the second is course grass reflected in the water: