So apparently some of the formations are real and some are fake or enhanced via photoshop?

regarding the email circulation:

This "frozen wave" variant of the message includes the following description:
Antarctica Frozen Wave Pixs - Nature is amazing! The water froze the instant the wave broke through the ice. That's what it is like in Antarctica where it is the coldest weather in decades. Water freezes the instant it comes in contact with the air. The temperature of the water is already some degrees below freezing. Just look at how the wave froze in mid-air!!!

These photographs are also authentic, but the accompanying description is false. The images do not show waves somehow instantly frozen in place. Instead, they show ice formations created by glaciation, melting and refreezing, and other natural forces, over very long periods of time. The "ice wave" photographs are not related to the striped iceberg images and were taken at a different time and place by a different photographer, scientist Tony Travouillon.

The series of "frozen wave" images began circulating quite some time before the striped iceberg photographs first made their appearance. I discuss them in more detail in another Hoax-Slayer article.

http://www.hoax-slayer.co...ergs.shtml

I was gonna say wouldn't all the water be frozen then?
The one with the stripes looks like some sort of polished stone or a bar of soap.

Actually I have seen waves on Lake Michigan in Chicago freeze like one of the pics. Doesn't happen all the time but it does happen.

it's not the wave freezing. it's the supercooled water underneath freezing and expanding, pushing it up (path of least resisitance), it's a slow process.



I'm sounding mean.

Actually I have seen waves on Lake Michigan in Chicago freeze like one of the pics. Doesn't happen all the time but it does happen.

Was it ever found out whether this one is real or a hoax?




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[Edited 1/15/10 11:45am]

Is that Renee Zellwiger??