TITLE: The Thawing Lake

These are landscape images with a difference - concentrating on the patterns in a snowy landscape. As winter changes to spring, interesting patterns emerge on the lake surface where the ice has thawed and started to expose the icy water underneath.

The snow and ice is white, the water much darker by comparison - almost black.

AUTHOR: Colmar Wocke (Switzerland)

I have been taking pictures (as an amateur) since 1968 when I bought my first Diana camera with my pocket money. After having owned other film cameras, I graduated to purely digital photography in 2007. I've come to realize that I tend to think very graphically, as a person - I read and write well but prefer seeing the "whole picture" so-to-speak; maybe this is why photography attracts me so much. I like doing street photography as it enables me to interact with people. I do however, also dabble in "miscellaneous" picture-making such as Landscapes, Conceptual or Abstract styles. Usually, I am opportunistic in my approach and take the picture if I like it visually in the instant; almost a spur-of-the-moment thing.