Picture a Day #5, January 4th, 2013

The ice skating lagoon opened up at Traxler Park in Janesville at 5pm this afternoon. I stopped by immediately after work hoping to catch the magic of hundreds of people skating round and round and round. Then I realized that only seems to happen in movies. I did catch a few people testing out the rink and I captured this image. The image was taken with my camera mounted to a tripod. I exposed for 15 seconds--which accounts for the blurry family. Also, way off to the left of the picture a pair of car headlights streaks down the ramp. 

On the ice, a father helps his son learn to skate. If I actually knew the family I would have pulled out a flashlight or a flash to light them up and "freeze" them in the image. But I probably would have ended up using this version of the image anyways!! 

Thanks for checking out my picture for the day--feel free to leave comments or ask questions below.

--jay