AMazing view and place... Fantastically well captured !!!

Very nice! Splendid capture! I was just posting some old pics from the beach in Michigan City - that was plenty cold, this looks positively arctic! brrrr.

Wow, I can't even begin to imagine what it would be like to see this in person, a lake that size with all this ice...the man really gives perspective here. Fantastic shot!

Another glorious shot of the frozen tundra of the Windy City. You could have a hell of a snowball fight out there, though I wouldn't want to be hit by one hurled at high velocity...

who be out there at this time lol. too cold for me.

It appears that the pier has seen better days. Another stellar shot of the snow, deposited lately by one of your continuing blizzards. What fascinates me is rather than a relatively smooth surface, there is instead the oatmeal-like clumps of snow permeating the entire area. Why so clumpy? And, like Denise said, the human gives a great size relation to the whole scene. Finally, there is a blue hue to the entire image.

Wonderful image!! It give me a feeling of cold solitude !!!

Wow! Superb composition with the bloke in exactly the right place . This is weather I'm so glad not to experience in person.

Mark, this truly is a marvelous capture and one that takes a while to view. This one really does say at all about the conditions there.

Wow. That pier must be amazing ly strong to withstand that. So, is that guy trying to get the Darwin award, or is this normal for there?

marvelous shot

I just took a closer look at this photo and it's companion; that snow/ice looks churned, which probably means there's liquid water under it. Considering the placement of what looks like a fossilized pier/breakwater, the person you photographed is probably standing on the surface of Lake Michigan, barely aware that there's probably a very cold, very hungry carp just beneath him...waiting. I love the mood this shot has: though it's not a musical composition at all, it makes me think of Arvo Part, and the music he composed during his "Silent Period"...there's that same sense of calm, with a subtle pattern weaving its way through lots of welcome and welcoming spaces between notes. This has the same sense of space and the same kind of breathing room and it's visually perfect. The composition is spot-on-perfect and I love the quality of the light and the intense, cool color. This is a brilliant winter-time shot.

Yes, this definitely looks like the winter time lakefront in all it's freshly frosted glory. There does seem to be a bit higher sour-milk-turning-into-cottage-cheese-lumps quotient this year, but I've seen worse. I seem to be fixating on the snow jammed into the pier "legs" like over stuffed ice cream sandwiches, but I must be hungry. Anyway, this is one of those great you-are-there shots that I love so much. I can feel the cold wind in my face, slowly freezing extremities, and hear the ice crunching disconcertingly under my feet. As to the nicely placed fellow disappearing into the horizon, I fully expect him to disappear for good if he takes many more steps. When I first opened this, I asked Chip: "Is that a man out there so far out on the edge of the ice?" His response was: "Yes, obviously a Darwin Award nominee." You may well have captured the last picture that man will ever appear in. As least he'll go out in an amazing photo. great work.

Looks just like what Lake Superior does, it looks very cold.

So, this is the hidden Lake Michigan, presumably ! ... aha, and most likely the only time one should walk on ice, covered by snow - of course that is if you cannot find the road or wanting to take a shortcut to the other side ... unless he is trying to change the colour of the snow ? Sorry, Mark - that was uncalled for, I know ;( - but it could have been the truth, you just never know what people have in mind to do, maybe even a spot of ice-fishing ? But apart from all those frivolities ;)) - this scene (and a few of the other snow-scapes pix) really boggle my mind: "the reality is, you will always have ready made snowballs" - just in case a big bear or something wild comes along, crossing your path. LOL !!! Be aware ... BTW - a very cool image !