As it does every year, winter is fighting a losing battle against the coming of summer and the spring ice is melting - fast. As the sun dropped below the horizon, the sky turned into an oceans of reds, oranges with touches of purple. The remaining light was reflected off the clouds, illuminating the landscape ever so softly. In that magic moment my attention was drawn to the cracking ice, forming what almost seems like petals around a heart of stone.

I wanted the rock and cracking ice to really pop out in the shot so I stacked my ND-grad filters to darken the sky as much as possible and add a bit more drama to the scene. Over the top? Most certainly, but I like the way the shot turned out.

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