Birth of the Space Whale Embryo

The last and weirdest of the ice pics from Minneapolis' riverfront, this one is more of abstract painting than a photograph. Although I should quickly point out that it is just tinting and contrast changes. I had fun reacting to the shapes and textures that were there.

Another of the ice photos from Minnesota. I had fun tinting the colors of this one in different directions. I brought up the saturation on the photo and the nurtured the colors I saw appearing a bit.

This one is probably the most obvious one to be ice. I played around with it a lot and was coming up with some weird stuff, but in the end I preferred the image in its original form.

Another from the ice series, sans bubbles.

Another ice picture from my little macro ice series. This one is even closer in on the ice then the last one. The lens was practically touching the ice... well as close as I could get it to focus that is.

These are really hard to appreciate fully in this format (tiny on the website). I provided a couple of close up crops from the main picture. The detail on these is amazing... well at least to me : ). That is what is so cool about real life; the closer you look, the more there is to see.

Nature really is an amazingly complex system. These images came out with very little color. I tinted them to remove them from reality a little bit. It was my intent to do so as I took them. Where I could, I pulled out the color that was there, which was in some cases amazing.

There is still more of these to come. I will post another in the next few days. Have to space my photos out a bit, I am running low. : )

Just thought I would add another note: I actually like the cropping of the two bubbles better than the whole photo. It is a stronger more surreal image. It looks like an illustration about cell division.

It's full of stars! ... wait... no.. make that bubbles.

I went down to the stone arch bridge on the river in downtown Minneapolis. I looked down at the ice river and snapped a few shots. Remembering the success I had had with close up shots of ice before, I thought I would give it another try.

I went down to the river and walked around on the edge of the ice for a while looking for abstract shots I could play with in photoshop. I took a bunch of really close up shots edging out onto the ice very carefully.

The monolith from 2001 came into mind as I stooped there on the ice staring into its depths. It was very hard, cold and much of it was solid black. Only a close look revealed the inner dimensions of it.

Just arrived home this morning (12.30.02). I worked on photos most of the ride home. It was super relaxing. Brad (Ocala's dad) upgraded our tickets to the sleeper car so we had our own little private "room". Here are the shots from the train ride to Minneapolis. I will post shots from while I was there as well as the train ride back soon.

The sunset across ice in a strip mall parking lot on Thanksgiving.