Ice Season - Lake Michigan during the stretch of winter when everything is in transition - when the lake is neither fully frozen nor fully open. Ice forms, breaks, drifts, and reforms along the shoreline, creating patterns that can disappear as quickly as they arrive. 

Photographed from above, the lake starts to lose its familiar sense of scale. The ice presents more like texture and structure - fractures, clusters, and shifting fields that feel closer to maps or geological systems than to a traditional landscape. At the same time, there are moments where the shoreline reappears, or humans enter the frame - providing scale to the space.

What draws me to this period is how temporary it all is. These formations and conditions might last a few days, sometimes only hours, before changing again. The surface looks still, but it’s constantly moving - reshaped by wind, weather, and waves.