Overlooking

I'm getting  bit behind due to the fabulously exciting life I live. You know what I mean — those walks in the snow that leave folks breathless with wonder. Ah well . . .  these photos are from Friday.

Both Sue and I wanted to go back to the bridge trail where we had been on Thursday. I had seen some ice formations in the river looking down from the bridge, but I hadn't taken my camera that day because I am turning chicken in the cold. But Friday was warmer, all the way up to just freezing if you can believe it, so I could stand to take my glorious, heated mitts off while I shot — but not for too very long.

Meanwhile Sue had a challenge to photograph something that she had previously overlooked. Well, she had never photographed Hackberry Park looking down from the bridge, so she would literally be overlooking (as in looking over) something that she had overlooked (as in neglected). I volunteered to pose in my red coat for a point if interest because we all know that I am pretty interesting. Eh?

I wish my toque were also red, but this is one toque that actually fits me and stays where it should.

When I got up to the bridge, the pretty ice agglomerations that I had seen on the previous day were mostly washed away. It didn't surprise me, but it didn't thrill me either. However, when we walked around to the little bridge on our usual loop, I found some icy edges against the water, and I snapped some photos. Probably at least one of the photos below was taken in this ↓ moment.

Below, are three results that I like. Although they were almost b&w to begin with, I did convert them in order to eliminate any possible colour. I edited these first two to accentuate the detail in the water action adjacent to the ice.

The final one did not have much wave action, so I processed the water to be almost uniformly dark in order to emphasize the interesting edge of the ice.

My three photos, particularly the first and third, look pretty good large on the full screen. I don't know what you will see if you click on them here, for I can't see the result on Blogger until I actually hit the publish button, which I am about to do. Fingers crossed.