Hanging Lake in winter

I took this photograph at Hanging Lake in Colorado several years ago. I’d been there before with friends, but on this trip I decided to go up alone. I drove down the interstate to the trailhead, parked the car, and headed up the trail late in the afternoon with the intention of photographing the lake in winter — the frozen waterfalls, the snow piling on the logs, the way the changing light hits that turquoise water.