{"id":9043,"date":"2021-01-25T23:52:57","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T06:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/?p=9043"},"modified":"2021-01-25T23:53:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T06:53:00","slug":"winter-ice-along-the-south-platte-river-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/25\/winter-ice-along-the-south-platte-river-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Ice Along The South Platte River, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Broken Bridge In The South Platte.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Boulder With Ice Skirt, South Platte River, Foxton.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The river offers many opportunities to make different images of water and spray as water flows downstream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"2543-0055-Water-Flow-Around-Boulder-South-Platte-River\"
Water Flow Around Boulder, South Platte River.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Whirlpool And Ice, South Platte River.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"2543-0133-Waterfall-Over-Ice-South-Platte-River\"
Waterfall Over Ice, South Platte River.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In the final image, I attempted to capture the turbulence of the water flowing over the ice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Waterfall Over Ice, South Platte River, No 2.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[563,158,1745,564,14,1743,1744,25,1020,306,597,1746],"class_list":{"0":"post-9043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general","7":"tag-boulders","8":"tag-bridge","9":"tag-broken","10":"tag-flow","11":"tag-ice","12":"tag-ice-skirt","13":"tag-iciciles","14":"tag-river","15":"tag-south-platte","16":"tag-water","17":"tag-waterfalls","18":"tag-whirlpool"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMatQ-2lR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9043"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9046,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9043\/revisions\/9046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}