Pressure cracks appear when ice contracts when the temperature falls and expands and forms ridges when its temperature rises. Fluctuations in recent temperatures led to the cracks, and the lack of snow made them visible. The cracks usually originate from a weak spot on the ice cover. After days of freezing temperatures and fluctuating thaw, pressure cracks may appear in the surface of ponds, puddles and lake ice. Loweswater, Cumbria.
John Macfarlane lives in Cumbria, with his wife Rosamund, another keen photographer. They are both patrons of Friends of the Lake District. His interests in photography include wildlife, travel, landscape, and subscape photography in the mountain becks, pots and falls of the Lake District and Scotland. He enjoys using images and video for visual story telling and lecturing.
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