Ice

While we were without power for four days recently we had to keep items like milk, butter, yoghurts, cheese etc cold by putting them in an esky along with a slab of ice. We purchased a couple of blocks of ice each day.

When we were putting all our emergency camping equipment away on Sunday after the electricity was restored, we put the last two blocks of ice outside to melt. It was then that David noticed the patterns in the ice and so we both spent a while taking photos of it.

This is the centre of one of the slabs side lit with one of our battery LED lights. I just love the patterns in the bubbles.

Thank you all so much for the amazing response to yesterday's photo of Sunset after the storm and I will catch up with you all tomorrow.

I am just off out as it is photo club tonight.

[Annie D]

how amazing - and beautiful

[Sally Ings]

Fabulous abstract capture, great textures and patterns.

[Angela Tavan]

wonderful shot! Makes a great abstract!

[Lina]

beautiful! (:

[julia]

Great shot and amazing how great ice can look.. I bet you appreciate power now...

[Jane Morley]

Really lovely!

[Barb Newcomb]

Great shot Babs. Looks almost like a foot in there.

[Denise Wood]

Fantastic patterns in your ice :) Glad you noticed it!

[Beryl Lloyd]

Wonderful --It is like a cascade of water with the bubbles forming as the water descends

[Rachel]

Really nice patterns. Little bubbles caught in there.

[Vanesa Podreka]

So abstract.

[Joyce]

Great abstract shot Babs. Hopefully life is returning to normal for you now

[Nova]

Wonderful ice image. :)

[sally agnew]

Love the textures and colour :)

[Heather Colgate]

Great shot Babs, clever... my friends over near the Poly Clinic still do not have power, seven days so far.

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Excellent capture. It is so cool looking.

[Susan]

Very cool capture, Babs.

[Peter]

Very creative image Babs, I thought it was running water taken with a high shutter speed, love the patterns and colour, Fav:)

[Montez Sattman]

Very cool!

[gloria jones]

Neat shot...cool abstract look to it

[Hazel]

fav!!!

[M0ments in time]

My grandson would make up stories about the little characters he could see in the ice. Great picture

[Paula W]

Love those shapes and the way the light shines through the ice. Thanks for all your support of my Project over the past two years Babs, I really appreciate it. I haven't seen Jackie for a while but follow her on Facebook and she seems to be doing brilliantly, really making the most of her pain free mobility which is great. I will pass on your good wishes :)

[Shailesh]

look like small sculptures.. love the blue light passing through

[Poppo Livy]

Well spotted babs. Nice shot

[Gayle Sears]

Pretty 'cool' shot. (Sorry about that. I couldn't resist.)

[Leslie]

glad this wonderful ice is no longer needed

[Gena Pegg]

WOW..they actually look as if they were carved images of creatures/people. That is amazing Babs. Great eye and shot. The light and reflection is wonderful.

[Lois]

Wonderful image!! Fav

[Pam]

That certainly is interesting looking. I like the blue tones.

[Babs]

@annied Thanks Annie. Just goes to show there are pictures in everything.

[Babs]

@beachdog Thanks Barb, yes I can see a foot now you mention it and also a few aliens in there :)

[Babs]

@julzmaioro Thanks Julia, yes it is lovely to have the power back, but the lights are so bright.

[Babs]

@thistle Thanks Joyce, yes everything is back to normal in our house at least. Some people still haven't got power though after a week. David is checking out generators so he will be ready for the next time we have a great storm.
The hard drive died on his computer due to the outage too, so that is being replaced. Hopefully the external hard drive back up is okay.

[Babs]

@bugsy I have heard that some people still haven't got power. I hope your house is okay. Is somebody keeping an eye on it while you are away.

[Babs]

@thimblelady Oooh! Thanks Gayle.

[Babs]

@pcoulson Thanks for the fav Peter. It was a huge block of ice and I am going to post another photo today of the edge of the block of ice. It had fabulous patterns all the way through it as it was melting.
The colour was caused by one of our LED battery lights.

[Babs]

@mbmomentsintime Thanks Maurice, Barb @beachdog can see a foot in there and I can see a few aliens. ha ha.

[Babs]

@paulaw Thanks Paula and good to hear Jackie is doing well.

[Babs]

@eyesmile Thanks Gena. I can see creatures in there too. They look like aliens to me. Definitely a close encounter of the third kind moment. ha ha.

[Babs]

@salza @angelat @psychotoxicc @chimfa @gilbertwood @beryl @888rachel @vanesa_365 @novab @hermann @mittens @susanalena @monty147 @seattlite @quietpurplehaze @shailestha @terryliv @lesip @loweygrace @pamdavis2015 Thank you all for your lovely comments and favs and I am glad that we no longer need the ice to keep things cool. Apparently we are due another storm at the weekend. Hope it isn't as drastic as this last one. Some people still haven't recovered from this yet and still have no power.

[Taffy]

Well formed abstract. Good idea to photograph the patterns in ice.

[Marnie]

Love it Babs, great abstract. How clever of you to think of lighting the ice like that.

[Vera]

Beautifully spotted, and very nicely composed with all those bubbles and lines.

[Yao RL]

wow, you make my imagination go wild.

[Babs]

@taffy Thanks Taffy. Just goes to show there are pictures everywhere.

[Babs]

@golftragic Thanks Marnie. Can't take all the credit though. David had the idea of lighting it,

[Babs]

@vera365 Thanks Vera

[Babs]

@yaorenliu Thanks. I can see aliens in this photo and Barb saw a foot.

[Rosan]

Good eye! Very cool patterns.

[Babs]

@fntngrma Thanks Rosan.

[Marnie]

@onewing You can award him a gold star for that suggestion.

[Lee-Ann]

Brilliant patterns & textures.

[Chris K]

fabulous shot Babs I can see I am going to enjoy following your project and will go back through your photos when I get some time.