Monday, February 23, 2009

Fish School


Ice carving competition at Rice Park, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Cold and windy evening for photography. cold on the hands (-4 F, -19 C). Even colder on the camera battery. I kept a spare battery in my pocket for when the battery in the camera froze; I exchanged batteries and keep shooting. Quite difficult manipulating the tripod to frame up a shot and firing a photo with the remote shutter release cable with frozen fingers.
Spotlight illuminating each ice sculpture brought out the details the sculptor created.

Posted by Rob at 12:04 AM

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15 comments:

  1. OlivierFebruary 23, 2009 at 12:51 AM

    vraiment j'adore toutes ces sculptures sur glace. et puis tes photos sont superbes
    really love all these ice sculptures. and then your photos are superb

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 23, 2009 at 1:00 AM

    another good one , but who won the competition ?

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 23, 2009 at 1:34 AM

    simply amazing!!! excellent work

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  4. PeterParisFebruary 23, 2009 at 5:20 AM

    A lot of suffereing... but the result was worth it!

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  5. ThérèseFebruary 23, 2009 at 7:28 AM

    I like the transparency, it's beautiful!
    I always wanted to know how to blow bubbles, that's where the school is then...

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  6. cieldequimperFebruary 23, 2009 at 12:16 PM

    Thanks for having endured the cold, the result is stunning!

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  7. MayaFebruary 23, 2009 at 1:10 PM

    Taking these shots at night really make the sculptures stand out (and your mad skillz of course)!

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  8. Just Roaming The CitiesFebruary 23, 2009 at 1:31 PM

    Yours turned out better than mine. We are bored, arent we? I am desperate for new pics, any ideas where one could go in this frozen state? sigh...

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  9. marleyFebruary 23, 2009 at 2:15 PM

    The details are brilliant. Thanks for braving the elements to bring us this!

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  10. Jane Hards PhotographyFebruary 23, 2009 at 4:16 PM

    Just would't know where to start. Cool image

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  11. TashFebruary 23, 2009 at 11:47 PM

    All that trouble was worth this shot. Wow! Interesting graphic quality to the photo.
    (Will you be following Kate's footsteps and going to warm up down South?)

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  12. AnonymousFebruary 24, 2009 at 1:46 AM

    What an art! Not just of the creator, but the photographer — you too.

    I like your header tag line. Sadly, not possible for me.

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  13. Diederick WijmansFebruary 24, 2009 at 1:47 AM

    Notwithstanding the cold you did an excellent job there!!

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  14. angelaFebruary 24, 2009 at 9:30 AM

    This is a beautiful sculpture, perhaps more so because it can not last though I'm sorry you had to endure such cold to capture it. (I'm glad you did though)

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  15. abcFebruary 26, 2009 at 6:33 AM

    The things we do to get our pictures... It was worth it though, great image!

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