A frigid February kept us snowbound for a few weeks as piles of snow blocked in our cars and icicles surrounded our sunroom like daggers .
The morning sun glistened through natures artwork.
I grabbed a macro lens and started experimenting with different focus points. By getting the camera up close to the icicles and focusing through them, the icicles transformed into beautiful bokeh orbs
Then I started getting closer and focusing on the tiny bubble formations frozen inside the daggers. Using focus stacking, really small details were captured.
And with a shallow depth of field, I was able to capture both the detail inside the icicle and the soft bokeh of the sunlight reflecting on icicles nearby.
While editing images, I realized that if I turned the image horizontally, that it took on a bizarre, watery, ocean-like appearance.
Shooting through the icicle sun reflections to the beech trees outside. The beautiful beech trees hold on to their golden orange leaves all winter.
I was fascinated by the variety of images I could create from a bunch of wintry icicles inside a relatively small sunroom. As the day warmed, the snow gently slid down the glass roof and pushed off the icicles, which impaled into the snow drifts below. The next morning, more icicles had formed…. guess where I was? Back at it of course!
Here is a gallery of some of the images created by just a relatively small and fleeting subject.
