Week before last, I headed out to the South Platte River near Foxton. This is a trip that I often make sometime during the winter months to make some images of the ice that forms. I have often seen these timbers stuck to a boulder in the river. Looks like it may have been the remains of a broken bridge that must have been washed downstream a few years ago.
This was the first trip that I made here during this winter. Often there maybe a sheet of ice that covers the river. As the weather warms, the ice melts, leaving an ice skirt around the boulders.
The river offers many opportunities to make different images of water and spray as water flows downstream.
I found this location at a narrow section of the river, where ice had built up across the whole width of the river. Here a whirlpool had developed where the water tried to navigate through the ice. I noticed that there were occasional pieces of ice that managed to get sucked into the whirlpool.
Small waterfalls form where water flows over the ice. Often, icicles form when the spray from the water hits the underside of the ice sheets.
In the final image, I attempted to capture the turbulence of the water flowing over the ice.
Enjoy.