frozen lake

The patterns that formed on the ice were quite amazing (and different

in different parts of the lake!) Sun = heat was making it expand,

thus creating tensions, which were causing it to crack. Although

there was no danger of the ice sheet breaking -- it was just under a

foot thick -- it was still scary to see a new crack suddenly appear

right between your feet, always accompanied by "metallic" sound effects...

Beautiful find!  Hope you creatd some tight shots of the ice- looks so unique.  SInce the relatively uncolorful trees at the top of the image don't add a lot to the image compared to the ice, you might try converting to B&W so that the shoreline turns into a graphical element.  I think this might add some impact. Patterns are so unique.

That's very cool (well, frozen actually!).  I've never seen such a concentration of cracks in relatively thick ice.  I can imagine the sensation of walking on this (carrying a camera no less) and having the ice crack and with the noise I became familiar with as a kid.  I like the perspective you've chosen.  I think the widest lens you have would be called for here.

Beautiful perspective, well done.

Ciao.  Barbara

Agreeing with Harry and Stephen, you have an incredibly strong foreground/middle ground, ending with a row of trees that seem to be cloned from some other image. Probably too late in the year, but next year if you can get back there, can you set up before sunrise and get the rising sun just as it peaks over the trees? Alternatively, a shot with the moon low on the horizon.