Photography And Half-Thoughts By Mitchell Hegman

...because some of it is pretty and some of it is not.

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Weird Ice

Yesterday, given warmer weather, several friends came out to the lake for a day of ice fishing.

They did a lot of fishing, but no catching resulted from that.

A couple weeks ago, I posted a photograph of the strange ice patterns on a section of the lake ice near my lakefront.  

The patterns are a result of fickle weather when the lake surface initially froze.  The first inch or so of ice formed during an arctic impulse.  That ice was partially broken up during a brief warm and windy spell.  The broken ice and open water then refroze quickly, creating the patterns seen today.

Yesterday, the melting ice surface offered a better look at some of the weird ice patters.  I shuffled along the ice and captured a series of images with my smarter-than-me-phone.



Frozen Shards



Frozen Geometric Shapes



“Brother” Mark Susag on the Ice

Mitchell Hegman

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