"Ice Storm 2002", taken just after sunrise with an Olympus 1st generation 1.2 megapixel camera, 2002. Digitally enhanced and manipulated.

Overnight, on December 4th, 2002 a freak and unexpected ice storm descended on Lake Gaston and surrounding areas. Shoreline trees had yet to lose their fall colors, and everywhere casings of clear ice rattled and clicked together on colorful filigree skeletons like frozen wind chimes made of bone. When I stepped out onto my deck the scene was so unaccountably surreal my mouth dropped open and I dropped my cup of coffee. I grabbed my tiny point-and-shoot camera, stuck it on a tripod, and snapped several pictures using an extreme zoom factor. Even the Canada Geese in the lower right corner waited for me before swimming away.

The tripod saved my butt.