quite the contrast from yesterday's summery post, today's landscape offering was dug from the 2015 archives.
in the winter of 2015, for the second year in a row, the niagara falls, along with all the great lakes, were frozen due to exteme cold conditions. while the american portion of the falls was almost completely frozen, (see here: https://365project.org/summerfield/365-still/2015-02-25 ) the bigger canadian horseshoe falls continued to flow. the river as you can see here was also frozen and there was a couple of arrests made during that day of people trying to cross the river from one side to the other. even though fissures appeared on the very thick frozen river surface and people could certainly walk over it, it is, however, illegal to do that and also very dangerous. you see, the fissures happened because the current underneath it was still moving strongly, as the force of the falls continue to move the water. the mounds to the left of the photo are of the mists instantaneously freezing as they settle on the surface.
in December 2013, when i was there taking photos of the sunrise over the falls, the weather quickly changed and i was assaulted by the wind and mists coming from that falls which formed ice crystals on my coat and face and the poor camera refused to take photos, which was a relief as i needed to put my hands inside my pockets while i could still see them; i couldn't feel them though and i thought they'd fallen off my arms, and i was worried i won't be able to take any more pictures. 😜
Fabulous capture. It looks just as beautiful frozen as it does when free flowing. Niagara Falls is on my bucket list should I ever manage to get across the pond.
i'm not sure about the american side. i know ours hasn't been going. but our borders are still closed and part of the route of the american tours crosses the border on the river. i must investigate but of course it's winter so definitely the tours aren't running. thanks, law.
This is a fabulous black-and-white landscape. I think I remember when you posted this picture and I was in total awe as to how something this huge could freeze over!
@lesip - no, i don't think it's frozen this time, probably just a few ice blocks down the river. and it was never completely frozen, it moves too quickly to be. @grammyn
Loving the contrast 🥶😅❄️🌞