Stunning pictures of Michigan's St Joseph Lighthouse transformed into giant icicles as arctic blast

dailymail.com ^ | 10 January 2015 | Sophie Jane Evans For Dailymail.com

[Morgana]

Beautiful pics on link!!!!

[Morgana]

Need any hot chocolate?

[cripplecreek]

Lots of cool winter pics if you're tired of looking out the winder.



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[Cloverfarm]

Pretty awesome. We don’t live too far away but during the snowstorm we hibernated this week! Someone who doesn’t have the flu can go out and take pictures of the awesomeness :-)

[cripplecreek]

Heatwave moving in tomorrow with highs expected in the 20s.

[chit*chat]

Thanks. Why do I have to go to UK to find this???

[Rome2000]

Because our media sucks.

Doesn’t fit their global warming propaganda.

[MeshugeMikey]

absolutely stunning!

Thank you.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[faithhopecharity]

they have wonderful springs, summers are fine, falls are great....

winters there just don’t agree with us, however.
i wonder why?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Meanwhile, we are cowering under our granola bars here in California because the warm sky is falling:

Climate change: 2014 warmest year ever recorded in California

By Paul Rogers progers@mercurynews.com
01/08/2015

[moose07]

Cracking comment on that page:

redheart, DEER PARK, about an hour ago
ALGORE tried to warn us about gLOBaL wARmInG

Janice, Los Angeles, 41 minutes ago
Seriously? You still don't get it? Global warming (i.e. Climate change) is about just that. Extremes in temperature of the Earth's climate system.

[mommyq]

Janice needs a course in “Follow the Money”

[Aliska]

No way I would ever upstage something like that!!! Two things I wanted to do and will probably never do in my life with photography. Running water effect and lighthouses. I got too late of a start with digital. When I was younger, I could scramble up, down and over almost anything.

This is one of my prizewinning photos, not many of those, but the cold and icicles reminded me of those days. This was early January 2004. It took 2 days to get this shot with my little Olympus C4000Z. I drove out about 15 miles, set up and took a bunch of shots, got home and found they all were overexposed and had blown highlights! No shooting in RAW in those days but I was already post processing in Photoshop.

So the next day the sun shone again (I had waited for that), I went out, adjusted for the overexposure, got set up and got this shot. I was about 63 at the time, and some rural-type men stopped because they thought I was in trouble, wanted to help. Then I got lost coming home, took a wrong turn and went way out over 30 miles before I got headed the right way again.

I did some more in the freezing cold, Christmas lights in particular, but I have downright envied some hardy types who can trek in terrible condition to get wonderful shots such as the lighthouse photographer did.

[SaraJohnson]

Thanks, Morgana. Beautiful...but painful, too. : )

[sauropod]

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[gunsequalfreedom]

You have to admit the two days of winter we had was kinda fun.

[Amntn]

You’re photo is beautiful!

[Aliska]

Thank you! It was featured in a movie, but I have never been able to find it.