Tag: frozen

Late April Snow dusted with light

Soft on Rough

Dusted with light

MichaelStephenWills6 Comments

Snow clings to the rough tree bark surface graced by late afternoon vernal sunshine.

Click photograph for a larger view. To do this from WordPress Reader, you need to first click the title of this post to open a new page.
  • Late April Snow dusted with light
    Late April Snow dusted with light

These shots were hand held. I used a Sony Alpha 700 dslr with a variable “zoom” lens, great for framing compositions.

Robert H. Treman New York State Park.

Click for macro slideshow.

  • Late April Snow dusted with light
    Late April Snow dusted with light
  • Fern Frond with Early April Snow
    Fern Frond with Early April Snow
  • Fresh Icicle with Fern
    Fresh Icicle with Fern
  • Rim Trail icicles with lichen, moss and fern.
    Rim Trail icicles with lichen, moss and fern.
  • Rim Trail icicles with lichen, moss and fern.
    Rim Trail icicles with lichen, moss and fern.
  • Acorn Still Life
  • Hydrangea Ensenada ClubAleman Chile February 15, 2016
    Hydrangea Ensenada ClubAleman Chile February 15, 2016

Copyright 2019 All Rights Reserved Michael Stephen Wills

Fresh Icicle with Fern

Fronds with Icicle

Fern Generations

MichaelStephenWills10 Comments

Spent and green fern frond with moss and icicles formed during an early April frost.

Click photograph for a larger view. To do this from WordPress Reader, you need to first click the title of this post to open a new page.
  • Fresh Icicle with Fern
    Fresh Icicle with Fern

Fern generations are here with the spent fronds from earlier years, pale green survivors of this season.

These shots were hand held. I used a Sony Alpha 700 dslr with a variable “zoom” lens, great for framing compositions.

Robert H. Treman New York State Park.

Click for macro slideshow.
  • Fresh Icicle with Fern
    Fresh Icicle with Fern
  • Rim Trail icicles with lichen, moss and fern.
    Rim Trail icicles with lichen, moss and fern.
  • Rim Trail icicles with lichen, moss and fern.
    Rim Trail icicles with lichen, moss and fern.
  • Acorn Still Life
  • Hydrangea Ensenada ClubAleman Chile February 15, 2016
    Hydrangea Ensenada ClubAleman Chile February 15, 2016

Copyright 2019 All Rights Reserved Michael Stephen Wills

all Creek View Winter downstream

Frozen Dam

Views from the bridge on Christmas Eve 2019

MichaelStephenWills11 Comments

Here is a companion post for last Sunday’s photographs of Beebee Lake. This was taken where the lake outflow continues as Fall Creek. Enjoy!!

Copyright 2019 All Rights Reserved Michael Stephen Wills

Reveal

MichaelStephenWills23 Comments
SONY DSC

The elements come into focus, revealing Ludlowville Falls, near Lansing, New York.  On the eastern side of Cayuga Lake, Salmon Creek plunges 35 feet over this limestone shelf.  Pioneers constructed a grist mill at this site.  

Here we see The Fang hanging over the entrance to The Cave.  There is falling water overall, but especially the center section (can you see it?).  The weight of accumulated ice fractured a portion of the frozen cascade. 

The Cave?

MichaelStephenWills25 Comments
The Object Comes Into View

Flowing water eroded away until this durable limestone strata.  The majority of sedimentary rock is shale, only 6% is limestone.  Throughout the Finger Lakes and elsewhere, this is why when flowing water exposed the edge of a limestone strata, the underlying, soft shales are worn away to reveal a waterfall, ever deepening.  Eventually, the support of the limestone washes away to form this ledge.  Here it is an ephemeral cave behind a curtain of ice.

See “The Fang?” for the first post of this series.

Falling Water

MichaelStephenWills10 Comments
SONY DSC

Amid the crystallized water, super-cooled, flowing water seeps through the structure to fall free.

See “The Fang” for the first post of this series.