Life is full of texture. For a photographer texture can take a boring photograph and make it extraordinary and to me life is the same way. Having multiple colors, shapes and sizes makes life and photography both more interesting and gives them both more depth. During this time of year, for me, I do not have the luxury of many different colors but I do have the stunning diversity of texture and size created by the ebbing and flowing of ice and water. So please enjoy my mix of textures.

IF118A great texture mix between the ice and water at the head of a salmon ladder.

The entrance to a fish ladder that is beginning to freeze up. But the mixture of the intruding ice and the texture of the reflected forest on the smooth water caught my eye.

Pull back just enough and some of that reflection starts to create its own reflected world. Almost felt that if I jumped in the water I would come out on the other side in a strange new world.

IF117Textured reflection.

Get a little closer and you find this beautiful border of the ice looking like it is staring at its own reflection in the water.

IF118Edge of the ice forming on the creek.