Silver sunlight frozen in a teardrop
Heaven reaches for Earth’s snowy chest
A treasure of crystal caught in gravity’s pull.
All text and images © Dale Schierbeck
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The details are amazing, what a beautiful take on the challenge!
Thank you Estelea. I’m glad it resonated with you as part of the challenge as well. Merci.
The shapes in the ice are simply breathtaking – gorgeous photos
I totally agree. They are the transformative parts of the ice and photo. A surprising detail. Thank you.
Beautiful!
Thank you very much.
Stunning pictures and I love the poem as well. 🙂 Beautiful.
Thank you so much. So very happy that the words worked with the photo. I really appreciate the feedback and comment. Thank you again.
I love these photos in ice – the beautiful, unique culmination of a whole process. We (humans) forget about all that nature requires to create these natural gifts that seem like simple, ever-present objects, but they are not. I could stare and stare at these.
I have become increasingly in love with the perspective of life and the world through a macro lens … much like I love the work of Burtynsky who creates perspective by taking huge pictures from soaring heights. Our human stereoscopic vision traps us at a distance from our world and we forget or simply don’t see the transcendent beauty in its finest details. Like you, I could have stared at these frozen droplets of water, simple in the form, complex in their formation, for hours as they captured the sun and the sunlight ignited their beauty.