Trail Ice (January 2020)

A lot of rain has fallen in the last two or three months and many of the fields are sodden. The paths to Kirklington and the Hexgreave Estate are thick with mud and more often than not I have preferred to stay on firmer ground. The only time this changed was on a very cold morning. The muddy fields had hardened in the frosty conditions and many of the watery tracks had turned to ice. This provided an opportunity for some abstract ice shots picking out the different shapes and lines created by trapped water and air. These were some of the results and particularly liked the cold cyan blues picked up by the camera which I decided not to correct when processing the images: