Winter dreams - a photo on Flickriver

Winter dreams

            This is another image from Midway, the Ice Castles attraction they have there.  Like I said in other posts, we made a special trip out there just to visit this attraction.  There are several across the US, I picked this one because it was closest to an airport.  The one in Upstate New York is probably the best, but harder to get to from Oregon.  It was warmer than it was supposed to be so some parts of the attraction were closed, to prevent the ceilings from collapsing on people.  One of the more interesting parts of this was the ground.  I was wondering how they would approach this, because you don't want hard-packed slippery snow or ice, so they have people walking the grounds with pitchforks stabbing the snow to make this odd crystal-like material.  Its ice, to be sure, but broken into fine particles.  Not snow.  Its odd, and it actually did fun things with the light at night.  So in this image I tried to capture the rainbow kids slide, one of the lit ice sculpture-blobs, a single person for scale, and the ground all in one image.  Had to shoot about 45 frames and do some difference blending in photoshop (it was crowded), and then some bracketed exposure blending as well to tame the crazy highlights from the internally lit ice.  The fun part was that the lights inside the ice keep changing colors, so on a long exposure, it gets hard to nail down one color without them just blending to white.  From a processing perspective this was a tough image.  

Anyway, let me know what you think.  :)

Taken in: United States / Utah / Charleston (show map)

Taken on: January 27, 2024

Tags:

ice

snow

cold

utah

color

colors

attraction

canon

tripod « less

Sets appears in: • Winter

Groups appears in: • Night Images • Winter Wonderland more » • Long Exposure • canon photography • Artistic Photography • !Catchy Colors • Color and Colors - No computer-generated posts. • Night Lights • The Light Fantastic • Funfairs, Fairgrounds and Circuses • I Love My Canon • visit the world - the travel guide • Night Photography • Theme park & Amusement park • Travel Photography • Flickritis: over 87,000 waiting for a vaccine. • This is America • Outdoor Photographer Magazine (Unofficial) • FlickrToday (only 1 pic per day) • EVERYTHING AMERICA • Road Tripping • Traveller's World • Night Shot • CLICK the CAMERA • The World Through My Eyes ... • Stuck in Customs' Brilliant Cabal - My Cool and Clever Friends • Outdoor Photography • Nocturnes - Night Photography • ***winter - wonderland*** • You Think this is Art • Light Painting - The Real Deal • Beautiful Capture • One Of A Kind • Your Best Photography • Amusement Park Golden Tickets • We travel the World • [Noctography] • Traveler's Photos • flickr in full color [No Black & White !] • -Spirit Of Photography • ***SCREAM OF THE PHOTOGRAPHER*** • Light painters create their own reality..... • Elite Photography (Post 1 Award 2 Fave 1) • Exquisite LIGHTSCAPES (Invite other if you like) • as beautiful as you want • The Light Painters Society • Flickr Social Club • flickr Travel Award (Post 1 - Award 3) • Light Painters From Around The World • The Light Painters • ` FLICKR ´ • Show off your country! • Flickr Hall of Fame • NUESTRAS FOTOGRAFÍAS. • Into the Night Photography • Water, Snow, Ice and Frost • World Photographers' Photos WPP • The Passion of Photography • Photographers from around the world • it happened one night ~ by Admin approval (p1 - c2) • My time behind the lens No 30/60 limits • We love cameras • The Best ... • This is Why I Bought A Camera • Specialistz™ • Tamron SP 15-30mm F/2.8 Di VC USD • THE PHOTO OF ALL DAYS. LA FOTO DE TODOS LOS DIAS. • * Beautiful Shots * • ♥ ♫ ☼ THE PHOTO IN ALL ITS FORMS ☼ ♫ ♥ (No limit 30/ • ALL AMERICAS • Canon R • ! ΙΙ TOURISM magazine ! « less

Stats: 1,763 views / 26 comments

Link to this photo view:
Link to this photo large view: