Abstract Ice Images II

A few more abstract images I took today on the Big Wood River, Idaho.  The ice I have been shooting through is approx. 1/2 inch thick and about the size of a frisbee.  I have been using the Nikon 35 f2 lens as it seems to be the perfect focal length for this purpose (I am using a 35mm or Full Frame sized sensor).  I have learned that using gloves to hold the ice for an extended period of time helps...

English Setter On The River

This is Guinness, my English Setter, along the banks of the Big Wood River and a rare moment of sitting still.

 

Trusses, Clouds & Cerulean Sky

 

Big Wood River, Fall Leaves & Stone

 

Nikon D3S & Nikon 35 f2 Lens

Boulder Mountains & Sunrise

Sunrise On Silver Peak.  Boulder Mountains, Idaho

 

Boulder Mountains, Idaho

1st of November and at the time of taking the above images this morning it was a brisk 15 degrees.  Most leaves have now hit the ground and rattle in the cold breeze along with the dessicated grass stalks like thousands of subdued rattlesnakes.

Nikon D3S & Nikon 35 f2 lens

Check out the new, November, issue of Catch Magazine where I have an image in the essay on "Blue."

Lower Big Wood River, Idaho

Lower Big Wood River Canyon & Lone Fisherman

Nikon D3S & Nikon 35 f2 lens

 

Leaves are still barely hanging on to the aspens & cottonwoods and on windy afternoons along the Big Wood River dead but brilliant leaves are carried away on a flow that's roughly 35% higher than average.  Nobody is on our local water and this is really a wonderful time of year to get a little solitude...

 

Simplicity

Nikon D3S & Nikon Micro 105 lens

Nikon 24 pc-e Lens

 

 

Nikon 24 pc-e series...  Charlie, pictured above, asked for these images to be converted to black and white.

Camera: Nikon D3S

Lower Big Wood River, Idaho

Lower Big Wood River.  Idaho

Nikon D3S & Nikon 35 f2 lens

Thanks go out to the Wood River Land Trust for coming up with, hopefully, a permanent and successful solution to the minimal flows on the Big Wood River below Magic reservoir.  In the past, by late October the water flow below Magic Reservoir was not enough to sustain the trout population and with the current plan on trying to maintain 15 cfs of released water (there is also a minimal amount of seepage flow as well) the approx. 3 mile section below Magic could really become an incredible fishery.  This also serves as a great example of a "win win" when it comes to Idaho's anachronistic water laws.

A Rainbow Release

The Release

A chrome rainbow is released.  Always trying to get a better release shot...

Camera: Nikon D3S

Lens: Nikon 35 f2

 

River Trash

The trash pictured above was collected in less than five minutes today along the Big Wood River.  The blanket was certainly the most unique piece of the day.

Camera: Nikon D3S

Lens: Nikon 24 PC-E