Wonderful shot and a great experience for you Carin. Continue to have a great holiday.

Beautiful snow shot.

I wish it was a holiday Jeff! I am getting some R&R planned in but it is mostly work! :)

wonderful excellent shot

wow, that's a fascinating shot! I'm really intrigued by the floating ice out in the deeper water, too. Having grown up in Western Michigan, I always loved visiting Lake Michigan during the winter because of the ice pack that builds up along the shoreline. Seeing it from above is a totally different experience than being right on top of it, though. Great photo!

Beautiful photo... Genial capture...

Fantastic capture, Carin

What a gorgeous view, excellent work!!

Beautiful shot--I can't imagine a lake so frozen over!! And how fun you got to spend time with Chip and Corey!!

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I'm just like you Carin and not used to snow and ice so when I first looked I thought "I didn't realise Lake Erie was so salty" lol. Just goes to show us tropicals are easy to fool lol

That is an impressive picture! Great looking picture!

a first-class, splendiferous image

Are you sure that's not Siberia...nah, never mind...Siberia is actually warmer than here! How freaky is that?!?!?!?! As for this shot. WOW! I can almost see where the ice starts and the land stops...almost. Sort of. Kind of. A little bit. And I love the colors. The Great Lakes are always so nicely blue from above, and some other color from up close, they're like chameleons only not as cute. Yesterday was amazing fun. I'm still trying to wrap my brain around stuff like hearing hyenas eating bones at night and you actually hearing it. WOW! And then there was that elephant who didn't seem particularly pleased to see anyone...what stories! Even though it was just one COLD day, it was one great day...the stuff real stories are made out of, and just think, one day (soon-ish, I hope) I'll be in South Africa (maybe even with a skinny Russian) and we'll get to be stalked by scorpions in the Namib desert, or hear hyenas inviting themselves to a barbecue, or maybe I'll get to see one of those wild African Dogs...they're so tall and skinny with such BIG ears! WOW! And on top of all of the great stories and images, I had a perfect weekend. Just meeting you in person was so incredibly cool, and it will happen many more times in the future. And then there's this great shot. WOW! I remember stories of Lake Erie, burning, and so it's particularly surreal to see it frozen! This is gorgeous!

Wow, what wonderful patterns where the water sloshed over the ice and froze on top of it over and over...fantastic view!

Wow, it must have been eerie to see Lake Erie from this vantage point, Carin, especially through the eyes of an inhabitant of iceless and snowless South Africa. Enjoy your stay and travels thru the northern portion of the USA.

Stunning capture Carin. Glad you could meet Chip and Corey enjoying a fun day together.

That is totally amazing to me. I know the Great Lakes freeze, but it's different knowing that picture was TODAY, and there it is! Wow. I mean ... I could look at a picture in National Geographic or something and say, oh well, on that day or that year there was some ice. But seeing it from your camera, taken today, it's somehow different. Don't ask me how. It's a great shot, and I've been enjoying looking at all the details. I promise you won't see any ice while you're here unless you want a few cubes in your whiskey! :P

OH WOW ! What an amazingly beautiful shot. And sooo cold too. BRRRR! Glad you had a great time with Chip and Corey :-D

What a sight! I feel as Tara does, somehow it has ore meaning because you took that pic NOW as it were.

Very beautiful wiev , Carin ! Great capture !

What a wonderful view! A splendid capture, Carin! :)

Wow, Carin, that is an amazing shot. So glad you are having a great time, sounds wonderful. xxx

a very interesting view! GREAT photo!!!!

wow Carin !! what an view !!! excellent photo

This is great Carin! Every shot I try to take out a plane window gets that prismatic tint in the frame. So glad your getting to enjoy some of that time with friends!

This is a wonderful aerial capture and the pattern of the ice on the lake is amazing. I never thought it would look like that either, it is so beautiful. Lakes don't freeze over here either. Enjoy the rest of your trip.

Fantastic view and capture. Welcome to the frozen north. Dana

This looks so unreal to our South African eyes. Beautiful! Clive

You must have flown right over my hometown of Toledo. I sure do miss it! But living in Florida is so much better this time of year!