The Iceman taketh away

For those of you who took a look at the last post and thought to yourselves.... hey picture taking blogging guy, why not just shoot a little later in the aftenoon when the sun will dance on the ice like Katarina Witt?

I tried just this very scenario about 10 minutes ago, the result is below....

While this was not the shot I was looking for this was a very fun pic to grab. "If you click the image and look at the blow up" you can actually count the rings of the droplets as they form and seperate.

f/5.6

1/800 sec.

ISO-200

148mm from about 5 feet to focal point.

Tamron 70-300mm lens without IS (image stabilizer)

Tiffen 812-Warming filter

No Tripod

I have to say, the tri/monopod is going to make shooting this sort of shot so much cleaner and stable.