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Enchantment under the sea

Frosty sunrise

Fire and ice redux

The fiery red sunlight and cool blue of the lake made for a stunning contrast.

The Arctic at our doorstep

See also: https://youtu.be/uVkfCL7quHM

Tessellations

Not your typical day on the Toronto waterfront. Winter strips away all the excess and allows the geometry of nature to shine through.

The path to sunyata

McCrae Lake

The sentinels

The snow weighed down the branches of the pines to turn them into sentinels, standing stiffly at attention, guarding the sacred stillness of the morning. One of them…

Wild blue yonder

In the blue hour before sunrise, as dawn breaks on the first heavy snow of the season

The cold beauty of a clear winter’s night

Featuring the fainter Fall/Winter section of the Milky Way, and some subtle airglow

The lookout

Toronto, Antarctica

Bernina Railway

Mother Nature’s graffiti

After a blizzard, the snow stuck to the windward side of the trees in this interesting pyramidal shape

When the snow turns the forest into a cathedral

During an unusually cold and snowy winter in Vancouver, BC. You don’t see this every year! The branches are like marvellous arabesques.

Ice jam on the Humber River at Old Mill

When else can you travel to the high arctic without leaving the comfort of your own city? The ice jam broke up later in the day: https://twitter.com/StormhunterTWN/status/1494419084649324545

Pancake ice on Lake Ontario

Seen at the mouth of Etobicoke Creek as it flows into Lake Ontario. The pancakes form as chunks of ice spin slowly in the current until they are…

Fire and Ice

Into dreams

Rime ice on trees

Parry Sound sunset

I visited Devil’s Rock on Lake Timiskaming over two consecutive days. It couldn’t have been more different.

As the ice melted, it formed these super cool patterns on the lake. This is because Lake Timiskaming is not an actual lake but a wide section of…

Slumbering Superior

A day with complete calm on Lake Superior? It’s like winning the lottery!

Snowy Toronto and cool ice patterns on Lake Ontario

Ice coral at night

At Humber Bay Park, the icy spray of the lake freezes on the branches to create these magnificent crystalline structures that are reminiscent of coral. Daytime version here.