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by sgingold on Sun Jan 29, 2012 10:42 am
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Congratulations! This is the Image of the Week selection for the Flora and Macro Gallery, week ending 3rd February, 2012!During our warm temperatures lately, the top of the frozen brook melted leaving a layer of water above the ice. This is a frozen upper crust above an air pocket. Lots of bubbles formed overnight during the refreeze. The white patches are fissures in the crust.
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by CactusD on Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:25 am
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Very cool shot: looks rather like a moonscape, another excellent bit of macro defamiliarization!
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by Eirini Pajak on Sun Jan 29, 2012 1:15 pm
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I like the composition a lot! The frozen bubble shapes are enjoyable to look at!
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by john on Sun Jan 29, 2012 1:42 pm
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Very cool! Great abstract!
 

by Tom Whelan on Sun Jan 29, 2012 9:27 pm
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Lovely ice abstract, nicely composed - glad you finally got some good ice!
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by kostas nianiopoulos on Mon Jan 30, 2012 5:11 am
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Good looking abstract , all is perfect for me well done !!
 

by Matthew Pugh on Mon Jan 30, 2012 6:56 am
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Hi

These icy abstracts are great fun to play around with – and I really like the combination bubbles and fractured ice seen within this shot. You have certainly imo composed this one nicely and that aspect along with the well controlled lighting look comes over a treat.

An excellent abstracted take – right up my street

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by Carol Clarke on Mon Jan 30, 2012 4:30 pm
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This is wonderful Steve! Gorgeous composition of geometric shapes - quite surreal and beautiful!

You could also try this with various different colour tones to make a wonderful image to frame for interior designing - colour matched for different room themes!
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by Jerry_Jelinek on Tue Jan 31, 2012 2:20 pm
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VERY nice Steve. Lovely pattern. Did you convert this to a high contrast B&W? I'll bet it would really POP out. Great as shown. Thanks for sharing.
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by Victoria on Wed Feb 01, 2012 9:06 am
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Love the combinations of shapes in the image. Abstract with good motion moving up, you can almost see the bubbles floating up. Thanks for sharing. Victoria
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by F Giarrizzo on Thu Feb 02, 2012 5:13 pm
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Excellent abstract image, perfectly composed- Great contrast and a skillful pp job on this picture- By the way, my best congrats for your IOTY award, Fabio
 

by sgingold on Thu Feb 02, 2012 5:36 pm
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Thank you very much to all for the kind remarks. BTW...someone made the suggestion, and rightfully so, that a very appropriate fish can be seen in the ice if you turn the image 90° clockwise. :-)

Thank you for the congrats Fabio.
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by Bluesteel on Sat Feb 04, 2012 10:55 pm
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Steve,

Wonderful shot !!

Congratz for a well deserved Image of the Week!


Cheers!
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by steve mackay on Sun Feb 05, 2012 11:43 am
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Superb work Steve!!!, incredible detail (this would look great a metre high!!!), a brilliant and well deserved (as always!! :wink: ) IOTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, looking very forward to seeing much more of your 2012 work, great stuff mate! :D
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by sgingold on Sun Feb 05, 2012 12:11 pm
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Thanks very much Sunny and Steve. And thanks to Greg and everyone for the selection.
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by Matthew Pugh on Tue Feb 07, 2012 7:41 am
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Hi

Congratulations upon the iow !!!

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by Kristel Schneider on Tue Feb 07, 2012 7:55 am
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Great composition with some great details! Congrats on IOW!!
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by Jackie Schuknecht on Tue Feb 07, 2012 9:38 am
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