Ice Abstracts (January 2025)

Frozen puddles on a frosty morning in January, ideal for some icy abstracts...

Stallon Pond (January 2024)

Colourful reflections from a thin coating of broken ice on Stallon Pond: 

Kennet & Avon Canal (January 2023)

A non-photographic trip to Wiltshire managed to produce January’s picture of the month and proves the value of always having a camera handy, particularly with a decent zoom capability. It also a reminder that sometimes one photograph is enough to tell the story of any particular day. 

The shot in question, catches sunlight coming through the smoke from a barge, moored on a frozen canal, trying to keep warm. The overhanging branches frame the whole scene. 

Frozen Stallon Pond

The clear weather days in January led to cold nights, frosty mornings, and the occasional bit of drifting mist. Trying to take advantage of this, I found Stallon Pond covered in a sheet of thin ice. 

I was particularly attracted to the combination warm and cool reflections across the ice. Most of the compositions were built around partially submerged and overhanging trees with their cast shadows occasionally being the main subjects. 

These were some of the results:

Ice Abstracts

The early January clear skies saw overnight temperatures drop and frosty starts to the mornings. A film of ice covered the trail puddles trapping air bubbles and streams of water below the surface. Viewed close up these created a series of abstract compositions capturing the simple, but often elegant, lines and curves: