Not sure if this will show up properly, but I'll give it a try.

Very thin ice caught on the stubble in the field. It looked like sheets of plastic shining in the sun.

Posted by Linda Frey on Mon, 04/13/09 17:05
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Comments by Jim E on Mon, 04/13/09 18:29

It DOES look like sheets of plastic in the sun. In fact that was my first reaction.

This is very interesting. How did those sheets of ice get to be uplifted like that? (I have to add that I have never seen snow or ice on the ground except from a plane)


Comments by Jan Bjorklund on Mon, 04/13/09 19:25

Yes just like sheets of plastic that have been caught in the grasses. Very much different than the three meter thick ice I was just watching on the evening news that had been washed ashore along the Red River north of Selkirk, Manitoba.


Comments by Amy Parker on Mon, 04/13/09 20:03

Jim, my yankee boyfriend just told me how the ice stands up like that. The area was flooded and frozen; when the flood waters recede, the top layer of ice is left on top of the reeds.


Comments by thomas mcgraw on Mon, 04/13/09 20:10

hey...thas cool...I'd crop the top Linda to bring the eye into the centre


Comments by Linda Frey on Mon, 04/13/09 20:11

I'd say your boyfriend is right, Amy. The temperature dropped overnight, so the snow in the field stopped melting to replace the water seeping away under the ice.


Comments by Steve Owen on Mon, 04/13/09 20:34

What an interesting image! I've never seen anything like that.


Comments by slacker on Mon, 04/13/09 22:35

i like it.......
and worth commenting on :P--


Comments by Julie M. Dant on Tue, 04/14/09 02:51

Great shot, Linda! I am really liking the blue color of the water and the browns of the stubbles. Very cool and I'm happy to know from Amy's yankee how this comes to be in nature. ;0)


Comments by Dennis Hancock on Tue, 04/14/09 05:31

Well spotted Linda, I like the pattern that has been created in the way the ice has been caught up in the grasses.


Comments by Maria Koutala on Tue, 04/14/09 07:18

This is very interesting photo Linda!!!!!


Comments by Rick Longworth on Tue, 04/14/09 08:02

Nice pattern and a strange effect.
I'd like to see from closer in.
(how about mount the ice as a lens filter?)


Comments by Ross Thornton on Tue, 04/14/09 10:10

I like the look of panes of glass here and their determination not to melt. I think Rick has the right idea.


Comments by Alias on Tue, 04/14/09 10:19

"Not sure if this will show up properly, but I'll give it a try."

Works very well omm in this air-conditioned room.

An interesting phenomenon well seen and well presented.
Congratulations on the thaw.
Glad you are sharing the magic from there.
Gladder to be enjoying it from HERE ! ;-)
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Comments by Linda Frey on Tue, 04/14/09 11:34

I'm only a wee bit smarter than those geese in my other post, but it's enough to keep me from wading out into an icy, muddy field. I took these shots with my longest lens, from the dry road, so my only option to get in closer would be to crop. I would have liked pictures of the ice close-up, had it been possible. And using it as a filter would have been fun too.


Comments by Ernest Cadegan on Tue, 04/14/09 11:58

We get that wonderful shell-ice along the banks of the river and the marsh under the right temperature conditions. It quite intrigued me when we first moved here in '02. I made some images during the first winter or two and then just didn't get back in subsequent winters. It really can be beautiful, like you've shown here.


Comments by Paul Bracey on Tue, 04/14/09 12:28

+++


Comments by Trond Jostein Pettersen on Tue, 04/14/09 13:55

Very interesting photo ... I liked it ... I get a bit uneasy feeling as I want to pick up the "plastic" and clean it up ... :o)


Comments by les perry on Tue, 04/14/09 14:21

Now thats an idea, wrap supermarket goods up in ice like this, then no plastic to dispose.

Nice take.


Comments by John Long on Wed, 04/15/09 04:50

I add my praise for a most interesting picture - I've never seen anything quite like this before!


Comments by Maria Salvador on Wed, 04/15/09 10:13

I thought glass... But whatever, plastic or glass, it results beautiful and very interesting.


Comments by luis pereira on Wed, 04/15/09 21:46

Ouch...like some sort of medieval trap. Great shot though.


Comments by luis pereira on Fri, 04/17/09 15:05

It could be your monitor Linda. It doesn't look so bad from here and I haven't heard any complaints.


Comments by Jacky on Sat, 11/01/14 00:42

Wonderful on many levels.


Comments by Zhurinskiy Yasha on Sat, 11/01/14 12:59

Beautiful and also unexpected - I've never seen anything like this
before!