The river and the icicle trees
 

I was walking around today, checking out the river just below a small set of falls. I found some icicle trees

http://pbase.com/image/24339120/original.jpg

And a closer look at one of the icicle trees

http://www.pbase.com/image/24339121/original.jpg

I love trees that look like that. Up by my parents' place, there is a bit of that. Not so much around here, though. Nice pics, thanks for sharing.

That's absolutely beautiful. The detail on the second picture is really great. Thanks for posting them!

Nice photos, I really like the black and white effect. We have ice storms here in the Pacific NW at least once a year, although walking around large trees can be dangerous, it is still a breathtaking and somewhat eerie feeling.

Really like the first one. Frost is a great!

Oh, those pictures really needed some auto levels. Hope you don't mind, but I fixed it for you:

And the second one ... :

I'll agree with the autolevels on the closeup as it enhances the contrast. In fact I generally look at autolevels etc in photoshop before printing or posting but forgot this time.

I'm not convinced about the wide shot though. It looks a little harsh to my eyes, maybe somwehere between the original and yours would be good.

Thanks for the comments

Wow that is really cool.
Ive never seen something like that before. :crazy:
Great pictures.

Shrubbery, I took the liberty of improving your personality. Hope you don't mind.

Hi, I like to make my own artwork, using my own pictures to display my intensely weak photoshop "skills".

So you thought I did that to display my photoshop "skills"? If my effort to help isn't appreciated, I'd like to hear it from dogzilla himself. Anyone attending a photography forum of any sort knows that autolevels does not require any skills at all.

I saw the picture, liked it, thought it might auto-levels (fully automatic feature in photoshop), applied it and when I had already done I thought that I could share it with the rest of you instead of asking the author to exactly the same thing himself.

Why the hell should we reply to a thread at all if we've got nothing to say beside "great photo". By giving pointers and my personal opinion to dogzilla I hope that he'll do the same to me, so that I'll evolve as a photographer.

Is this a photography forum or is it just another place to show off our pictures?

Shrubbery, I appreciated your comments. I realized you are trying to be helpful and took no offense at you posting the fixed pictures.

Happy holidays

Thank you!

Have a merry christmas!