Ice Light

This is a fine visual testimony to the forces of nature on maritime operations! I gather that you live either near the SW shore of Lake Michigan, or Chicago area. I've enjoyed your gallery very much. (Live in Port Washington, WI on the lake, too.)

I also deduced that you must live close to Chicago.  I live in Indianapolis, and I've tried a couple of times to time my visit to Chicago to get just such images.  Never works!  :-)  In fact, a couple of winters ago (when the Super Bowl was in Indianapolis), we went up there, and the old-time fishermen told us it was the first time they had NOT seen ice in all the years they had been fishing there.  I'll keep trying.  This is really a magnificent shot!  Just curious.....were you using a super zoom, or did you risk life and limb to walk out on the pier?