Ice Beyond the Dam

Not long ago, I came across one of my old photos of ice on trees by the dam at Appleton. Appleton is a hamlet a few miles downriver from us on a bend in the river. At the bend there is a dam, I think because there was once an adjacent power station. I wasn't happy with the former photo, so I decided to return this year. I ported my longest zoom lens because the icy trees lay across the river.

Well, despite the well-below-freezing temperatures, there was not as much ice as I had seen previously, but there was some. There was still a problem, however, for there was deep snow leading to the one spot where I could access the riverbank for a good view of the scene.

I was forced to stand by the side of the road and point my long lens through a smallish gap in the bushes.

My idea was to make that fallen tree before the wall the focal point and to take a series of three photos, each one zooming in on the tree a little more.

Under the circumstances, I think I did as well as I could. While I would have preferred an even closer photo of the ice on the tree, I couldn't have zoomed in much more, even with my longest 400mm lens.

I am not sure if the remaining wall was once part of the power plant. There seem to be too many windows for that sort of building, but you never know.

While there, I did take a few other photos, but I don't think that they really fit in with this series, so I will likely share them in a later post.