| Date: 27 January 2004 |
| Locale: The heart of Saint Paul,
Minnesota |
| Photographer: Kendall W. Corbin |
|
| Comments: The deep freeze of
late January in Minnesota provides the right conditions to build
an ice castle, if one were so inclined. Strange as it may seem,
the
state
is
well endowed with people who are eager for this kind of entertainment.
By tradition, their building materials are
large
blocks
of
ice
cut from the frozen surface of a local lake. These are then hauled
to the building site, where hearty souls create the ice palace,
the center piece of the Winter Carnival.
When
this
photograph was
taken, wind chills were a cool
20 or so degrees below zero Fahrenheit outside the palace, but
inside among the blocks of ice and dancing sunlight, temperatures
were
a balmy
minus 6 degrees. |
| |
| Camera: Olympus Camedia C-50
Zoom |
| Lens: Olympus 7.8-23.4mm telezoom/macro |
| Digital image setting was 2560x1920
pixels |
| Image converted to a 600 dpi TIFF file
for archival. |
