ku # 1295 ~ ode (and apologies) to Fredine
Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 06:41PM 
frozen over Lake Champlain ~ Adirondack Coast / Peru, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
I didn't go out intending to make this picture. It was another drive-by happenstance picture making opportunity - I was returning home from Hugo's Sunday AM hockey game (2 wins this weekend in which Hugo scored 7 of the team's 9 goals) when I came upon this scene.
The scene struck me as a Fredine-like vista because, unlike most days, the Green Mountains of Vermont on the far shore were obscured in fog / mist/ haze thus creating a more to-infinity appearance than that which is normally present. The distant line of bright sunlight on the ice was also a wonderful visual demarcation between surface and sky.
While I like this picture quite a bit and since there is no thaw in sight, I'll most likely head out to deliberately to make another picture in this location in more "dramatic" light - less monochromatic, more "colorful".miles Canadian kilometers away, I took it upon myself to attempt to channel Eric's picture making mojo and make a sweeping landscape picture.
Reader Comments (4)
I'd be very happy to have this one in my collection. I miss the freezing and thawing. I perhaps didn't appreciate the monochromatic days as much as I should have.
I've often gone to great effort seeking out that feeling of vast emptiness. Living on the coast, you'd think I'd find it easily enough at the ocean. But the views here are often 'encumbered' by the islands off the coast. Despite the vastness of the Pacific Ocean, it just feels less open to me. Add that to the condos and surrounding mountains and I sometimes feel claustrophobic living in Vancouver.
>>While I like this picture quite a bit and since there is no thaw in sight, I'll most likely head out to deliberately to make another picture in this location in more "dramatic" light - less monochromatic, more "colorful".
So... light is not light?
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