Fresh beauty unfolds when perceiver and perceived engage in a love affair with one another.

So much of the world's beauty reveals itself only when we adjust our angle of view. In this case, I snowshoed out to a rock standing in the middle of a frozen lake. Because a depression in the ice had formed all around the rock, I was able to place my camera down into the 12-inch deep hole and shoot horizontally through the ice rather than the usual way - vertically, through the top. As always, fresh beauty is able to unfold when the perceiver and perceived come into a cooperative relationship where each engages in a love affair with the other.

Photo: Ice on Dream Lake; Rocky Mountain National Park, CO; February 24, 2014