Ice Tractors

I couldn't stop the car fast enough when I saw these tractors. You know how your car slides when you lock the brakes up on ice. What an addition to my tractor series. I shot this through the passenger side window (it was down), and made a few more when I got out of the car. It didn't seem right to step on the icy grass, everything was crystal. I think the weed ice blocking the lower part of the tractor adds to the the ice effect since the background says white and not ice. It's like a fence. Makes sense.

Quiet Country Road

This was such a day. The tree is what I wanted to feature in my initial thoughts. I think the treeline, the power lines, poles, and even the road help show how big and grand the tree is. I wanted to shoot more of the tree but I had a building on the left (you can see a bit of it), and the composition wasn't there if you added more to the right. I love how dark the tree went. The ice on the tree and landscape were just "icing" on the cake! I'm glad it worked out the way it did. The image makes me think "Quiet" but it really wasn't. It was more crinkly.

Cold House

Sleet, snow, and rain, what a day. I'll admit, I never left the car, and didn't put the window down. The window up (dirty and wet), helped keep the contrast down and makes it more real for the day. Sometimes I think camera technology is so good it takes some of the realism out of the image. The house is square on this day. I think of a place like this as an abandoned barn. It's vacant and with no upkeep, it won't be long before it's a pile of rotten boards on the ground.

Ice

We came around a corner and I couldn’t figure out what I was looking at. First I thought drought and the lake was low. Turns out, what I thought was mud, was ice! I had to make some kind of image. The hard part was finding the angle without tree limbs and things. The exposure worked out nicely as I only had to worry about the sky (I stopped down one to keep the ice dark). This image makes me think of a surreal moon, and SPRING!