Along Big Creek in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, the conditions could not have been for a photographic venture into the woods. In parts, the streams had frozen over solid, but water rushed beneath. In openings such as this, the freeze-thaw cycle produced beautifully sculpted edges of ice, on one hand looking abstract in form while at times appearing to be carved of Swarovski crystal.

I have several favorites from this sequence, but I come back to simplest of compositions that play up the quality of the sculpted ice.

Canon EOS 5D, Tamron 28-105mm f/2.8 Aspherical @105mm, 1/2 sec @f/14, ISO equiv 400, Calumet 8000 Carbon Fiber Tripod, Gitzo G1276 Ballhead