Thin Ice

Another beautiful image from this area Jeff.

Very nice shot! Love the foreground...

this is dramatic one, well composed...

Wonderful!

How lucky you are to have amazing frozen landscapes like this not far (or not so far) from home. I may have liked a tad more contrast in the distant hills and in the midground snow. But all in all this is a gorgeous image that clearly deserves a 6!

How is winter in Ontario right now? As warm as winter in Europe (10°C and more in Switzerland)?

Best regards,

Alain

Thanks all for your comments.  Alain, I had tried to create some illusions in this series.  For example, the "distant hills" are actually snow & ice build-up at the edge of the open lake, perhaps 50 meters away. The tallest was only about 3 meters from base to peak.  There was a fair amount of spray onto the mounds due to pounding waves.  The foreground pool of thawing ice was perhaps 2 meters round.  I have returned to this area for 5 years, and each year it is different.  This year, so far, there is no snow.  Two days ago it was 15C and today we have rain.  This is a big contrast to last year when four Great Lakes were over 90% frozen over.  Three hours north of here the temperature in January hit -40!  Thanks, Jeff    

Oh! So the illusion was complete... Well seen and done!