Winter in southwestern Colorado has been quite cold this year—much colder compared to recent years. One benefit of all this cold weather is the chance to look for naturally occurring ice formations, or to try creating my own in our yard. While I generally consider myself to be a responsive photographer in which I exclusively react to the existing natural world around me, I occasionally like to experiment with photographing under slightly more controlled situations. With these ice experimentations, I consider my approach to be a partnership with nature in which I control some of the variables and then natural processes fill in the blanks.