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The interesting thing about this snowbank is what the snow has taken the form of. How many faces do you see in the snow? These faces were gone within an hour after this photograph was taken.
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One single snowflake hangs on. Looking closely its beauty is in the pattern in its solid part. It may not be shaped with lacy legs like most snowflakes but it was blessed with an etched pattern on its solid body.
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The snowflake remained on the end of this branch for hours as many other flakes fell from the sky and to their fate of the masses below on the ground. It remained independent to the end... until the sun came out!
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It is so much fun to catch drips from a melting icicle. The challenge is having the background to appear in the drop (upside down of course) in focus and the pattern of the drop and other drops and stages of drops compose the picture and give it the "feel" you are looking for... creating the "artsy" of the shot.
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In talking about composition of a photograph, its pattern of drops, stages of drops, etc. to make it "artsy" would be to compare this photograph with that of "JA1_5906.JPG" The out of focus drop in the middle helps bring the icicle on the left into the photo; whereas in 5906 the icicle is a "widow" in the photo and would be better off cropped out of the photo because it distracts from the beauty of the icicle in the foreground.
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The strange formation of this icicle first caught my eye. After studying it for a moment to determine what caused it to spread out as it did, I saw the face. There is a distinct eye (you may see a set of eyes), nose, protruding upper lip, wide open mouth, tongue sticking out, lower lip and long thin "cartoonish" chin. And just to the right of the nose and protruding upper lip there is a hint of a cheekbone. I think the strong wind we had the evening before created the melting icicle to melt in this formation
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This "ice face sculpture" is a little more difficult to see the face and features because the face is actually visible because of the "colorization" in the ice pattern. Two thirds of the way up there is an "eye" ice colorization pattern. Close to the center of the picture there is a dominating colorization pattern resembling lips
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This is the most stunning ice face sculpture photo of all those taken. This one actually has two faces or rather a "bust" of a Colonial Williamsburg era and another face. The bust is in the center of the photograph. The other face is above that and almost resembles St. Nicolas.
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