Sunday, February 8, 2009

Not quite glacial ice . . .

. . . but being behind the frozen falls in LaSalle Canyon in Starved Rock State Park still wraps me in a soft blue light. I did no processing to this photo. Pulled the EXIF data because I was interested in how I managed to capture the blues that I saw with the naked eye. This was shot handheld on my Olympus 570UZ, f/2.8, shutter speed 1/30, ISO 125, focal length, 7.0mm.

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16 comments:

  1. barbsFebruary 8, 2009 at 7:34 AM

    nice picture Val. I love the blue tint.

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 8, 2009 at 10:06 AM

    Wow! Ice, with its transparency, color and sheen is hard to capture with the camera. You did a great job here. Lovely.

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  3. SheilaFebruary 8, 2009 at 10:27 AM

    Absolutely beautiful! The blue just jumps at you.

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  4. ChesneyFebruary 8, 2009 at 11:14 AM

    You are really good, this is a hard shot to get! Stunning, very nice work!

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  5. terricreatesFebruary 8, 2009 at 11:44 AM

    I like those blues, I get them sometimes too, even when its totally unplanned.That's a great shot and very interesting.

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  6. AnonymousFebruary 8, 2009 at 4:31 PM

    Very cool shot,(no pun intended) the color is almoost trippy. Great job on a what must be a tricky thing to shoot.

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  7. DebraFebruary 8, 2009 at 4:49 PM

    Wow, that is just amazing. Grest shot.

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  8. AnonymousFebruary 8, 2009 at 7:08 PM

    Wow Val, this is amazing! It really does look like glacial ice!
    Beautiful!

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  9. EdmundFebruary 8, 2009 at 7:16 PM

    I've never seen frozen falls before but it does look like the blueish green of the glaciers. How does one get behind them without slipping? Great shot.

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  10. ~ValFebruary 8, 2009 at 7:51 PM

    Thanks for the nice comments, everyone!

    Funny you should ask about walking behind the falls, Eddie. It's almost like a cave, carved out from years of erosion. As we walked behind, I commented that it was probably the first time in weeks I was standing on DIRT (not snow). The ground was quite sandy, no snow had fallen there and no ice had formed. It was probably the easiest walking we did in the whole hike!

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  11. mljrbgFebruary 9, 2009 at 10:40 AM

    Everything about this photograph is beautiful. Well...except for the fact that it is still winter!!

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  12. AnonymousFebruary 9, 2009 at 12:14 PM

    Oh, I'd love to see that for myself! What a beautiful shade of aquamarine. Great job of capturing this.

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  13. HeatherFebruary 9, 2009 at 8:02 PM

    Wow! Wow....that's all I can think of to say. It's beautiful. You've almost convinced me to brave the cold weather and go hiking in the winter. I had no idea hiking in the winter was so beautiful.

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  14. AnonymousFebruary 11, 2009 at 7:43 PM

    Awesome!

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  15. AnonymousFebruary 11, 2009 at 8:09 PM

    Great capture Val!! You really did a nice job with this one.

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  16. EstherMarch 1, 2009 at 12:28 PM

    Great, stunning, amazing, beautiful...all of the above. I'm glad you seek the places I've never been and can record them for me.

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