Ice on the Fishponds

My trip out on Sunday had taken me down to the fishponds at Ightam. Thos time there was still a little bit of ice on the water and still some leaves around. Luckily the ice had not been broken, so I was able to get some interesting images.

Oast House

From the weekend.

Ightham Mote

I had a run out today. It was bright and clear but very cold.

I ended up at Ightham Mote and was doing some more HDR work.

Home Again

The trip away was great fun although I did less photography than I hoped. 


Anyway back to Kent and today I had a bit of time to go out and take some pictures. I revisited the old fish ponds that I visit regularly. The season is a bit 'slow' for images The spring growth has long gone. There is no summer colour, and the colours of autumn are still some time away. 


What did show well was the reflections in the ponds and some leaves.

Ice on the fishponds

Had a run down to the fishponds today to do some images with ice. While I was there I found some tyre tracks with ice covered puddles. These gave some interesting images with air trapped beneath the ice.

Igtham

Had an early visit today to the Igtham ponds. This will possibly be the last visit for some time as I am starting to repeat images I have already made. When winter starts to bite the ponds will freeze which will give some different images.

Igtham Again

I am continually pulled towards the old fishponds at Igtham, and my visit today proved productive in the way of image production. 

The storms of the past few days have now striped the trees of almost all their leaves. So my hopes of getting the pond covered in fallen leaves has not happened this year. As this was the image I had in my mind when I went out. I needed to move out from the ponds to find some other locations. As the leaves are gone and the bracken has died down I found a wonderful birch log in an advanced state of decay. This log will be revisited over the next few weeks.

Ightam Fishponds

Some pictures shot a few days ago.