It's a beauty ... brrr ...

Simply gorgeous. Just love the way you captured the light. It seems to dance.

Wonderful capture!!

Your lake never ceases to amaze me. Ice, for pity's sake! Your postwork shows how cold, cold, cold that water is. The light is beautiful, and it gives the image life.

This is such a fabulous shot, Mark. These beads of ice are quite adventurous in their beauty of colors and shapes and light. Amazing to see what you could get out of the old camera.

Is that ICE! GOD! BBRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

gorgeous lighting & POV!!!

Fantastic shot.

A stunner..I could not live anywhere so cold.

OMgosh that is lovely. I love how the ridge sweeps out and curves toward us as if it originated from the sun. And that SUN! teasingly peaks around the corner only letting out just the right amount of glow to make those luscious purples. The ice has captured warm glitter rather frosty water. So much to take in. I'm sure I'd stand there viewing until I was an ice sculpture.

Being a viking deep in my soul, this shot just captures me; I could stare for hours at all this gorgeous frozen beauty. To me it's a sea serpent (see the fins on the undulatine back as it coils around itself?) What an amazing sight, one I've never seen myself. Love the low gold sunlight and rich purple shadows, the perfect complements. Thanks so much for your visit to my gallery, and all your thoughtful sensitive comments; very deeply appreciated, Mark!

Woooooooooooooow! AmaZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzing photograph! Stunning colors!

wonderful natural art and lighting !!

For me this is so much more than just and ice-ridge Mark, but then again all of your images are often times so much more than what you give them credit for. The love you have for the area you live in always comes through in your captures. This one appears as if you waited patiently night and day for just the right moment when it would be perfect. Odie's comments about the curves sweeping toward us here is so right on, and the array of reflections and colors from this is fabulous.

great post -work

terrific creation! great capture Mark!

Wow, are you lucky to have the lovely and seasonably changeable Lake Michigan virtually at your finger tips, as defined in this fabulous capture and postwork, Mark! Stunning colors, blends, hues, reflectivity, textures and light/shadow effects in this remarkable composition! And all this with your old camera! I thought for sure that this was a product of Bill's Olympus SLR. Utterly nonpareil.

The colours & light are outstanding. I love it.

Wow, this would be so amazing to see. I love this beautiful capture with the touch of the sun just kissing the water and snow to give a radient glow to the scene. The water in the foreground looks so cold and yet the sun softens and warms it higher in the photo. This really is an outstanding image and I like the little peaks of the water too in this early morning shot.

Lovely shot!

fantastic capture

Fantastic shot - beautiful light & composition & such rich deep blues. I somehow missed this beauty when it was first posted & am glad I found it through it's selection for LWITG...

beautiful!

Why is it Mark that I always feel compelled to mention the light in your pictures before anything else? ;-) The rising/setting(?) sun here is spectacular. The way you've positioned it in the upper right hand corner, spilling into the frame, poking through the clouds and even generating a small rainbow effect. Then bouncing off the backside of the ice and gently illuminating the splashing tops of the mini-waves as they break upon the shore. This is simply a delicious composition! Well done my friend...and for finding this in LWITG too!

such a gloriously icy beauty

I must agree with Bill - your understanding and feel for light is always the first thing that strikes me about your photographs, particularly of water (or ice). When I do 3D images, I have unlimited control over the position of the sun, etc., but you manage to position the light perfectly in real life. (Do you have a special arrangement with the forces that align and position the celestial bodies for optimizing your photographs...?) This makes me think of my time in Labrador, when I watched with wonder as the water became heavy and slow, then stopped moving over a period of a few days as the temperature dropped, eventually allowing me to write home to family in South Africa and tell them that walking on water was passé... (although this looks too unstable to bear the weight of any but the smallest creature - which I'm not :o) Beautiful!