We’ve been under an inversion for a few days and I haven’t felt much like making photographs. There wasn’t nice light to chase and it was too cold to stand out in a field otherwise. I’ve been out a few times since Christmas, but there hasn’t been anything blog worthy. Yesterday, the air cleared, and the inversion lifted. I took the opportunity to visit Utah Lake State Park to see the ice mounding on the eastern side of the lake. It’s been building for a few weeks now and I’ve seen a lot of photographs on my social media feeds. I wanted to venture out onto the lake surface and shoot isolated fragments of ice. I took one step out and immediately broke through and sank to my ankle. Not otherwise prepared with waders, I was confined to shooting from shoreline. It was precarious for a 62-year-old man tottering around on the slick ice blocks with a backpack full of camera gear and flailing a tripod in the air. Other than breaking through the lake surface, there were no other mishaps. It is rare that I find an occasion to use my ultra-wide lens. Since it was the ice blocks I was after, I chose to drop as low to the surface as possible and emphasize their mass and grandeur. The setting sun created a nice focal point and the contrasting colors of the warm sunset and cool shadows made nice compositional elements. These are great winter scenes to add to my portfolio.